Re: WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure to provide role=presentation on a layout table"

On 2 June 2014 13:32, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

> Your example of layout tables and images is not the same.  Layout tables
> have no data table elements.  Data tables have to have data table
> elements.  That would be more akin to saying that decorative images didn’t
> need an alt.  That does raise an interesting question.


<td> and <table> and <tr> are data table elements, all table related
elements are data table elements, there are no non-data table elements.

refer to:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#tabular-data

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>