Re: Agenda: August 27, 2015 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus (Correction I am still chairing this week)

Joseph wrote:

> What do you mean by "real-world"?


I mean, are there any real sites using this technique? Not including test cases like yours. 

I can't even remember the last time I saw rowspan used appropriately, much less a instance of tbody[tabindex], so I'm questioning whether there is a pressing need to solve this, or if it's just a theoretical problem.

James



> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-08-31 4:35 PM, James Craig wrote:
>> Is there a real-world use case that does this? It seems like a pretty complicated example to discuss as a theoretical problem.
>> 
>> For example, what's the real-world need to focus a row group?
>> 
>> James
> 
> I provided an example on the webkit bug [1] involving a train time table, where the user can click or press a key to hide groups of rows they are not interested in:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__clown.idrc.ocad.ca_Fluid_aria_FocusableRowGroup.html&d=BQIC-g&c=eEvniauFctOgLOKGJOplqw&r=_CJHAxKW6RlD1Am-_BoB7w&m=_oT52tcSousa5_jsuF-mKRhgxmIfDCfH6xQJ5JsGGmM&s=ojMFC3rPrnR1KYn8Yyx2uzBYUXjMaZbR_G1G8B5K9tQ&e= 
> This is an example where the structure and nesting of the grid, rowgroup, rowheader, row, and gridcell roles are according to the spec, AFAICT.  What do you mean by "real-world"?
> 
> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146239
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