Good point Leif. We will need to make sure authors address the table with a
role="none"
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Cc: surkov.alexander@gmail.com, Steve Faulkner
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C
WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>, James Craig
<jcraig@apple.com>
Date: 02/21/2014 03:41 PM
Subject: Re: addition of HTML role requirement mappings
Richard Schwerdtfeger, Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:30:08 -0600:
> Note: With HTML5.1 and ARIA 1.1 you will not need to put role="table" on
a
> table element or role="row" on a <tr>. This will continue to reduce
> footprints.
Another use case: If the layout table heuristics[1] wrongly labels a
”layoutish” data tables as a layout table, <table role="table"> could
force AT to treat the table as a data table.
[1] http://www.w3.org/mid/DAC73203-0A79-4DD7-AB9D-BD3C0B58B3FE@apple.com
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leif halvard silli
