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Re: Adding ARIA role="presentation" to a table based CMS

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:29:19 +0000
Message-ID: <4911595F.2020908@cfit.ie>
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org PF" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>

Hi Rich,

> That is the intent of aria-presentation and it is much easier than trying
> to reproduce the desired behavior with style sheets for existing
> implementations.

Yes. I think this would be *very* useful for organisations who are
locked into using a CMS solution that outputs its content or mods into
tables (for the whatever reason). Rather than is codifying poor practice
I think it will improve the user experience in this case.

Cheers

Josh
Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 08:30:12 GMT

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