Re: addition of HTML role requirement mappings

Richard Schwerdtfeger, Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:30:08 -0600:

> Note: With HTML5.1 and ARIA 1.1 you will not need to put role="table" on a
> table element or role="row" on a <tr>. This will continue to reduce
> footprints.

Another use case: If the layout table heuristics[1] wrongly labels a 
”layoutish” data tables as a layout table, <table role="table"> could 
force AT to treat the table as a data table.

[1] http://www.w3.org/mid/DAC73203-0A79-4DD7-AB9D-BD3C0B58B3FE@apple.com

-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Friday, 21 February 2014 21:40:28 UTC