Alex, those colspan and rowspan mappings were direct from the HTML mappings … an exact copy for that matter.
Presumably you have implemented rowspan and colspan for years. I don’t see why they need to be only object attributes.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Alexander Surkov <asurkov@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Iirc there's a problem to make the accessible table interface to
> reflect aria- values as they can be used to create not-yet-loaded
> grids, see Jamie's concern [1]. I think that's why we expose them as
> object attributes and group position in IA2.
>
> Joanie, what is your thinking on this issue, since ATK and IA2
> shouldn't be different on this?
>
> Note, the spec says to map aria-rowspan and aria-colspan into IA2
> table interface, they should be mapped into object attributes instead.
>
> Thanks.
> Alex.
>
> [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alex,
>>
>> Please take a look. Joanie reviewed ATK/ATSPI
>>
>> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/action2102/core-aam/core-aam.html
>>
>>
>> Joseph,
>>
>> Alex is updating the IA2 spec. I am waiting on aria-errormessage and
>> aria-details mappings. Also, Cynthia is going on vacation. I fixed her
>> aria-rowspan and aria-colspan mappings but I will have to wait until she
>> returns to get the rest for action 2102. I also still need to get the Mac
>> mappings. We might want to pull in the changes after Alex weighs in on the
>> this branch. there are A LOT. … or we can wait.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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