- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:13:19 +0000
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Ben Boyle wrote: > I have one question bugging me about table headers, algorithms and scope. > > Assume I am authoring a table and want it to be fully accessible. This > table has both row and column headings ... as an example, imagine it's > a TV guide and the columns represent hours in the day and the rows > represent various channels (the data being what's on). > > It's the top left cell that bugs me. > > If it contains "Time" then it should be a <th scope="row"> > If it contains "Channel" then it should be a <th scope="col"> > > How can this be unambiguous (to a UA) without @scope? > AFICT it can't. I don't think anyone has suggested doing away with <th scope=""> though, so I'm not sure why that's a problem (except insofar as, even with <th scope> avaliable, many authors won't bother using it correctly).
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