- From: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 11:49:04 -0800
- To: "'Fred Esch'" <fesch@us.ibm.com>, "'Steve Faulkner'" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group'" <public-aria@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures'" <public-apa@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <008b01d15d29$9b5b9dd0$d212d970$@Gmail.com>
Fred, Is it necessary to have a property on the table to tell the user that a particular TH inside that table contains an interactive element for sorting that column? Matt From: Fred Esch [mailto:fesch@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 9:57 AM To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> Cc: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>; W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org> Subject: Re: grids vs sortable tables Steve, There are sortable tables being used in the wild, for example angularJS's ng-table. How are developers supposed to tell AT users that a table is sortable and a column can be sorted if the sortable and sorted properties are removed? Sortable tables are important for accessibility as they are often used as an accessible alternative to charts. Even when you can make a chart accessible, when you a huge number of data rows - you want a better way for an AT user to find the max/min values than walking all the data members. For instance, providing a sortable table will be more usable than having an accessible bar chart and forcing an AT user to walk 200 bars to find the top five bars. Personally, if I had to get the top five values from a huge bar chart I would prefer a sortable table as well. Regards, Fred Esch Watson, IBM, W3C Accessibility Watson Release Management and Quality Steve Faulkner ---01/29/2016 04:58:04 PM---On 29 January 2016 at 20:07, Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com <mailto:fesch@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > A table element can have a *'sort From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com <mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com> > To: Fred Esch/Arlington/IBM@IBMUS Cc: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com <mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com> >, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org <mailto:public-aria@w3.org> > Date: 01/29/2016 04:58 PM Subject: Re: grids vs sortable tables _____ On 29 January 2016 at 20:07, Fred Esch < <mailto:fesch@us.ibm.com> fesch@us.ibm.com> wrote: A table element can have a 'sortable' attribute which designates you can sort on columns. note the table sorting algorithm and associated attribute have been removed from the whatwg HTML spec due to a lack of implementer interest and suggest the same fate will befall this feature in W3C HTML, sooner rather than later. -- Regards SteveF <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/> Current Standards Work @W3C
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