- From: Michael Smith via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:53:58 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec-author-view
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apply wg decision (whatwg r6006)
[updated by splitter]
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@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
</script></head><body onload="init()"><div class="head" id="head">
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
- <h1>HTML5 <span class="edition">Edition for Web Authors</span> <span class="rcsrevision">revision 1.4828</span></h1>
+ <h1>HTML5 <span class="edition">Edition for Web Authors</span> <span class="rcsrevision">revision 1.4829</span></h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-14-april-2011">Editor's Draft 14 April 2011</h2>
<dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
<dt>Editor:</dt>
<dd><a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">Ian Hickson</a>, Google, Inc.</dd>
</dl><p>This specification is available in the following formats: <a href="spec.html">single page HTML</a>, <a href="Overview.html">multipage HTML</a>, <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/">full specification</a>.
- This is revision 1.4828.</p>
+ This is revision 1.4829.</p>
<p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
© 2010 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide
Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts
@@ -13925,13 +13925,21 @@
};</pre>
</dd>
</dl><p>The <code><a href="#the-table-element" id="table-1">table</a></code> element <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/rendering.html#represents" class="full-spec-link" title='Read about this "represents" reference in the full HTML5 spec.'>represents</a> data with
- more than one dimension, in the form of a <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tabular-data.html#concept-table" title='Read about this "table" reference in the full HTML5 spec.' class="full-spec-link">table</a>.</p><p>Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web
- authors have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page
- layout. This usage is non-conforming, because tools attempting to
- extract tabular data from such documents would obtain very confusing
- results. In particular, users of accessibility tools like screen
- readers are likely to find it very difficult to navigate pages with
- tables used for layout.</p><p class="note">There are a variety of alternatives to using HTML
+ more than one dimension, in the form of a <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tabular-data.html#concept-table" title='Read about this "table" reference in the full HTML5 spec.' class="full-spec-link">table</a>.</p><p>Tables should not be used as layout aids.
+
+ Historically, many Web authors have tables in HTML as a way to
+ control their page layout making it difficult to extract tabular
+ data from such documents.
+
+ In particular, users of accessibility tools, like screen readers,
+ are likely to find it very difficult to navigate pages with tables
+ used for layout.
+
+ 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.</p><p class="note">There are a variety of alternatives to using HTML
tables for layout, primarily using CSS positioning and the CSS table
model.</p><p>Tables have rows, columns, and cells given by their descendants.
The rows and columns form a grid; a table's cells must completely
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@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
</head><body onload="init()"><div class="head" id="head">
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
- <h1>HTML5 <span class="edition">Edition for Web Authors</span> <span class="rcsrevision">revision 1.4828</span></h1>
+ <h1>HTML5 <span class="edition">Edition for Web Authors</span> <span class="rcsrevision">revision 1.4829</span></h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-14-april-2011">Editor's Draft 14 April 2011</h2>
<dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
<dt>Editor:</dt>
<dd><a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">Ian Hickson</a>, Google, Inc.</dd>
</dl><p>This specification is available in the following formats: <a href="spec.html">single page HTML</a>, <a href="Overview.html">multipage HTML</a>, <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/">full specification</a>.
- This is revision 1.4828.</p>
+ This is revision 1.4829.</p>
<p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
© 2010 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide
Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts
@@ -26312,22 +26312,23 @@
<p>The <code><a href="#the-table-element">table</a></code> element takes part in the <a href="#table-model">table
model</a>.</p>
- </div><p>Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web
- authors have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page
- layout. This usage is non-conforming, because tools attempting to
- extract tabular data from such documents would obtain very confusing
- results. In particular, users of accessibility tools like screen
- readers are likely to find it very difficult to navigate pages with
- tables used for layout.</p><p class="note">There are a variety of alternatives to using HTML
- tables for layout, primarily using CSS positioning and the CSS table
- model.</p><div class="impl">
+ </div><p>Tables should not be used as layout aids.
- <p>User agents that do table analysis on arbitrary content are
- encouraged to find heuristics to determine which tables actually
- contain data and which are merely being used for layout. This
- specification does not define a precise heuristic.</p>
+ Historically, many Web authors have tables in HTML as a way to
+ control their page layout making it difficult to extract tabular
+ data from such documents.
- </div><p>Tables have rows, columns, and cells given by their descendants.
+ In particular, users of accessibility tools, like screen readers,
+ are likely to find it very difficult to navigate pages with tables
+ used for layout.
+
+ 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.</p><p class="note">There are a variety of alternatives to using HTML
+ tables for layout, primarily using CSS positioning and the CSS table
+ model.</p><p>Tables have rows, columns, and cells given by their descendants.
The rows and columns form a grid; a table's cells must completely
cover that grid without overlap.</p><div class="impl">
<p class="note">Precise rules for determining whether this
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