Re: aria-rowspan, aria-colspan, aria-colindex,aria-colcount, aria-rowindex, aria-colcount, figure (Action 2102)

Jamie,

Even for an HTML table we cannot guarantee contiguous cells. An author can easily hide an entire row or individual cells.

So, I don't see why you would put a restriction on these ARIA attributes to only be in object attributes.

Rich

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> On Aug 8, 2016, at 5:26 PM, James Teh <jamie@nvaccess.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/08/2016 6:06 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>> I read that. But that's talking about the Table -- and not the TableCell
>> -- interface, right?
> Well, yes, non-contiguous cells are more of a *direct* issue for the table interface, but those two interfaces (table and cell) go hand in hand: they necessarily impact each other.
> 
>> If I have a cell, and the TableCell -- not the Table -- interface is
>> implemented for that cell, then I should be able to ask that cell for
>> its span. I don't see how that would be impacted by gaps.
> That depends how you map things. From what I can see, the table interface doesn't really support non-contiguous cells... or at least, it wasn't clear that it would. At the very least, non-contiguous cells will break existing versions of NVDA and probably other AT. My recollection is that it was decided that the table interface should be contiguous and attributes should be used to get the *real* numbers. So, using my example, if you have columns 1 and 4 (2 and 3 are a gap), column 4 gets mapped to column 2 in the table interface. If column 1 says it has a span of 2, we have a problem because the spanned column 2 in the table interface maps to ARIA column 4.
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