- From: Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:16:55 -0700
- To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
The description of gridcell includes quite a few references to "cell". After all, a gridcell is a cell and is contained within a row. A cell can belong to a table or grid or treegrid and be editable or not depending on the parent container. This will also be in line with The specs that have a single columnheader and rowheader role and not one pair for role=table and one pair for role=grid. Instead of retaining role=gridcell, consider deprecating "gridcell and defining "cell" with the same description used for gridcell. Deprecating it will give a clear signal to makers of user agents / AT and in the interim, validators can flag "warning" for role=gridcell. Makers of user agents / At will need to be urged to implement this change once ARIA 1.1 becomes a recommendation. Defining two roles with identical functionality will make it difficult for makers of user agent / AT. Some will support it sooner than later and developers will need to cope with this problem. Thanks, Sailesh Panchang
Received on Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:17:25 UTC