- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 19:58:17 +0300
- To: Denis Boudreau (WebConforme) <dboudreau@webconforme.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On May 4, 2007, at 17:41, Denis Boudreau (WebConforme) wrote: > Either way. How on earth is a blind user supposed to know that the > "218" value is the sub-total of all hotel expenses on this trip for > 2 days in Boston unless the screen reader can tell him? As a seeng > person, we understand it automatically by looking at the table. Foa > a blind user, there needs to be indications to make that > undersanding possible. And this is exactly what headers and ids are > used for. Is there a reason why explicit id-based associations are better than implied associations with <th>s above on to the left? Is this about backwards compat with existing AT (don't existing products do implicit <th> association?) or about a flaw in a processing model that implies heading associations? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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