Response to your comments on WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

Dear Ian Hickson:



Thank you for your comments on the 24 February 2009 First Public Working
Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/). The
Protocols and Formats Working Group has reviewed all comments received on
the draft. We would like to know whether we have understood your comments
correctly and whether you are satisfied with our resolutions.



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Please see below for the text of comments that you submitted and our
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include links to the relevant changes in the WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent
Implementation Guide editors' draft at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/20091214/.



Due to the scope of changes made in response to comments on the Last Call
Working Draft of WAI-ARIA, we are returning the specification to Working
Draft status. We will shortly publish a public "stabilization draft" of
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Thank you for your time reviewing and sending comments. Though we cannot
always do exactly what each commenter requests, all of the comments are
valuable to the development of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation
Guide.



Regards,



Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair

Michael Cooper, PFWG Staff Contact


Comment 286: Expose colspan and rowspan
Date: 2009-08-22
Archived at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2009JulSep/0004.html
Relates to: WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/>
Status: Answered question

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Your comment:
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How should I expose colspan="" and rowspan="" on table cells?

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Response from the Working Group:
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WAI-ARIA is not meant as a replacement for HTML tables. If the author
wishes to have headers that span multiple columns or rows this can be
achieved by overlaying WAI-ARIA on an HTML table or by using
aria-labelledby to have a cell reference its corresponding table. We have
updated the grid design pattern in the WAI-ARIA Best Practices Guide to
reflect this. From a WAI-ARIA perspective, this means there are no specific
requirements and standard HTML processing of these properties would apply.



For WAI-ARIA 2.0, we will reconsider the issue of spanning gridcells.

Received on Monday, 14 December 2009 23:11:32 UTC