- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:03:27 +0300
- To: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Al Gilman <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:52, Joshue O Connor wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:58, Joshue O Connor wrote: > <snip> >>> It's not a desired stance /against/ native enabling semantics at >>> all. It's a distilled realization that this may be needed in order >>> to make more complex tables accessible in a way that will >>> practically work. Again, the semantic ideal vs the real world. >>> Supporting this behavior in the spec until UAs can deal with the >>> improved algorithm (and you make very valid points about the need >>> to improve it) would mean that HTML 5 will support older AT "out >>> of the box". On this issue anyway. >> Why is making headers to point to td relevant to supporting legacy >> UAs? (See my previous email for an elaboration.) > > Allowing headers to reference a td would allow more complex tables > to be made accessible to users of assistive technology. The > suggested method works in current and older AT as support for header/ > id combinations is rather good. [1] [2] [3] [4] Would it not work if the cell pointed to were marked up as a th instead of marking it up as a td? If a cell is a header to the point of having the headers attribute point to it, why isn't it a header to the point of being marked up as th? (Guiding authors to mark their header cells as th is the onramp to get into a situation where the headers attribute can fade away in most cases once automatic association algorithm implementations enter the installed base.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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