Re: Important concerns with naming calculation 'name from content' not being included in parent role accessible name.

On 18 May 2017 at 19:15, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

> In theory yes, but where does it say in the spec this is required?


It is a normative requirement in HTML5

If a table is to be used for layout it must be marked with the attribute
> role="presentation" for a user agent to properly represent the table to
> an assistive technology and to properly convey the intent of the author to
> tools that wish to extract tabular data from the document.
>

https://w3c.github.io/html/tabular-data.html#the-table-element

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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
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