Re: <table summary> and <td headers> (was: Re: <font> (was Support Existing Content))

On Wed, 02 May 2007 18:25:07 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile  
<chaals@opera.com> wrote:
>> I'm aware how headers= works. I don't think your use case is one where  
>> it is needed though. Could you give a concrete example (maybe even in  
>> code)?
>
> If you are using a screen reader to explore a table, finding relevant  
> headers via the headers attribute has been an important use case for  
> some time (as in, years). Unfortunately the more powerful and less  
> code-heavy approaches such as the use of scope and axis attributes have  
> not had nearly the same level of implementation, so in practical terms  
> this attribute is important to accesibility (as in "don't break the  
> web").

Yeah, the other use cases given seem to indicate that the default  
algorithm for finding table headers and scope= are enough. I suppose  
implementing headers= is more trivial given that you don't have to do any  
traversal.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:19:16 UTC