Re: Implementation bugs (present and anticipated) with aria-owns in tabular containers from Joanmarie Diggs on 2015-04-01 (public-pfwg@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:04:10 -0400
To: "james.nurthen@oracle.com" <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
CC: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <551B521A.1070501@igalia.com>

Hey James.

On 03/31/2015 09:29 PM, james.nurthen@oracle.com wrote:
> I agree that this is valid. I think the reason that this has not come up
> before is that, in practice, you can normally achieve row ownership
> through judicious use of role=presentation and the grid roles without
> having to resort to aria-owns. 
> 
> We have used aria-owns on rows to point to the owned gridcells and this
> works quite well in FF. 

Just out of curiosity, what are the native elements being used? From my
admittedly-cursory experiments, when the native elements are tables and
ARIA is being used to further enhance that native table markup, things
don't break quite as much.

--joanie

Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 02:04:45 UTC