Data table requirements

Name: Jon Gunderson
Email: jongund@illinois.edu
Affiliation: University of Illinois
Document: QR
Item Number: Success Criterion 1.3.1
Part of Item: 
Comment Type: technical
Summary of Issue: Data table requirements
Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
For data tables (http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#qr-content-structure-separation-programmatic) do all of these techniques need to be used to meet the 1.3.1 success criteria :
a.       H51: Using table markup to present tabular information
b.      H39: Using caption elements to associate data table captions with data tables
c.       H73: Using the summary attribute of the table element to give an overview of data tables
d.      H63: Using the scope attribute to associate header cells and data cells in data tables
e.      H43: Using id and headers attributes to associate data cells with header cells in data tables


Proposed Change:
That if there is only one simple data table the use of summary and caption are optional, but recommended.

If there is more than one data table on a page, caption and summary are required.

If a data table is complex summary would be required.

See proposed evaluation rules:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/WCAG_2.0_Principle_1_Perceivable_Rules#Requirement_1.3.1_Info_and_Relationships

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:49:03 UTC