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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 14:10:12 +0000
Message-ID: <4911A944.90501@cfit.ie>
To: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org PF" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, w3c-wai-pf-request@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>

Aaron M Leventhal wrote:
> Agreed.
> 
> Making it role="presentation" is only a minor tweak to clean up the 
> experience in tables that linearize.
> It doesn't help with the tables that don't linearize.

Yes, and they are good points Gez. I guess this is a technique that
would have some use in helping to repair a flawed system.

Cheers

Josh
Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 14:11:07 GMT

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