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

[Steve wrote] there are cases where such markup is not required.



Thanks for sending that example.  F91: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1
for not correctly marking up table headers should then be updated to let
folks know that some data tables do not require headers.  Honestly though I
think it would be very confusing for a screen reader user without any
headers.  Perhaps there should be a way to tell the screen reader that no
headers are present otherwise it might guess at headers?  Screen readers
would likely read the row and column numbers – all of the numbers would
most likely be confused with the numbers in the cells.  I would think that
a more accessible Sudoku would work in a forms/focus mode with some sort of
ARIA markup that might indicate the columns and rows through letters are
something other than numbers.



Jonathan



*From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, June 02, 2014 8:49 AM
*To:* Jonathan Avila
*Cc:* Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
*Subject:* Re: WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure
to provide role=presentation on a layout table"





On 2 June 2014 13:41, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

What I was attempting to say is that according to my understanding of WCAG
2 – some use of TH, td with scope, or ids and headers are required for any
table not used for layout purposes.



some techniques may recommend this, but is/should not be a requirement,
there are cases where such markup is not required.

there is an example in the HTML spec: refer to example under "Here is an
example of a table being used to mark up a Sudoku puzzle. Observe the lack
of headers, which are not necessary in such a table."
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#tabular-data


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Regards

SteveF

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