Re: Review of 3.15.1. The table element

Why not borrow wording from WCAG? Better still, limit ourselves to a
short note regarding accessibility and link to the WCAG advice.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#gl-table-markup
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/Overview.html#H51

I'd like to see the HTML spec focus on HTML. WCAG focuses on
accessible authoring techniques. Strong links between the two will
provide a much better resource for authors reading either document.


On 8/23/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
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> gonchuki wrote:
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> > A conformance tool could at least check the number of DOM nodes inside
> > table cells and raise a warning if above certain number. I mean, may
> > be a span or two are ok for visual formatting, but above that
> > threshold the conformance tool should raise a warning telling the
> > author to check that tables are not used for layout.
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> On balance, I think a toning down is justified.  If a conformance
> criterion is not amenable to pass/fail validation, it should be
> re-expressed as a desideratum, with perhaps a (shared) footnote
> to the effect that it may be upgraded from "deprecated" to
> "disallowed" when AI has developed to the point at which its
> usage can be reliably detected by a programmable validator.
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> Philip TAYLOR
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