Re: Heuristic Tests for Data Tables (Discussion)

Ben 'Cerbera' Millard wrote:
> I wonder how many tables can be made natively accessible? How many will 
> need to be retrofitted by authors with <th> or scope="" or headers="" 
> and how likely is that? I guess more studying (like Philip and I and 
> others have done) and prototyping of implementations (like James Graham 
> might do)

There's some very early work on this available at [1] (only the HTML4 
algorithms are currently implemented). Due to a bug in a html5lib 
serializer badness occurs when you give it a page containing more than 
one table. I also haven't checked that it's giving the correct results 
in almost any cases. However if you want to report bugs feel free.

[1] http://wordsandpictures.dyndns.org/table_inspector.html

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Received on Friday, 24 August 2007 19:50:27 UTC