- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:33:09 +0100
- To: "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "public html for all" <list@html4all.org>
At yesterdays HTML WG issue tracking telecon [1], the issue of headers not being allowed to reference a td (in the current version of spec) was discussed. It was decided by the Chair (Chris Wilson) after discussion and consideration of the pros and cons that the current spec should be changed to allow headers to reference a td element. Chris "took action item assigned to josh and will figure out how to ensure edit gets made in timely fashion" [1] The action: "rewrite spec to reinstate id/headers AND their functionality by specifically stating that headers are allowed to reference a td. Reword the current definition of the headers attribute so that each of the space separated tokens must have the value of the ID value of a th or td element." [2] This means that the HTML5 spec will contain a method to mark up complex and irregular data tables accessibly that is well supported by current AT's. It is also a positive sign that the W3C process is working within the HTML WG. [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/08/28-html-wg-minutes.html [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/72 -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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