techniques for tables (clarifying how to handle nested tables for the ER group)

hello,

in the Evaluation and Repair Tools working group we have been discussing 
how to evaluate and repair tables.  Particularly, nested tables.

if nested tables are used to present data, is there a way to associate the 
cells in the inner table with header cells in the outer table?  I would 
assume that axis and headers could work  across tables (if a UA was built 
that way).  However, in HTML 4.0 the only values for "scope" are row, col, 
rowgroup, and colgroup.  so, it seems that "scope" could *not* be an inner 
table.

Nested tables seem less of a problem for layout tables. I propose that the 
evaluation and repair is to handle each table separately, like Mark Novak's 
HelpDB tool.

--wendy
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wendy a chisholm (wac)
world wide web consortium (w3c)
web accessibility initiative (wai)
madison, wisconsin (madcity, wi)
united states of america (usa)
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