RE: Action-1293 Proposal

> Fair enough regarding proceeding. But how do we handle things like hidden rows and columns? A real-world use case is the Google Docs spreadsheet.

The use of aria-hidden on a row or set of column cells from top to bottom should work I would think, which can be programmatically set. Would this make sense? Developers would need to exercise due diligence to make sure that the right column cells included it though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:10 AM
To: Joseph Scheuhammer
Cc: Joseph Scheuhammer; PF; Alexander Surkov
Subject: Re: Action-1293 Proposal

Hey Joseph.

On 03/19/2015 10:42 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:

> If there are gaps, then something else is needed :-).

I think that it can be solved by specifying the colindex on each cell rather than making it optional/imply-able.

> So, before proceeding, I think we need to decide if ARIA is going to 
> support non-contiguous data sets.  IMHO, this adds a layer of 
> complexity that will make authors lives more difficult, and likely 
> make for badly marked up tables and grids.

Fair enough regarding proceeding. But how do we handle things like hidden rows and columns? A real-world use case is the Google Docs spreadsheet.

--joanie

Received on Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:41:47 UTC