- From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:09:31 -0400
- To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Hey all. For those of you who were not at today's ARIA concall, you missed a fun meeting. ;) Executive summary is this: There are many issues to hash out about what roles to add related to non-interactive tables. And we need everyone's input. But clearly, this is not going to a simple case of adding a few roles and calling it done. As a result, those at the meeting concluded that the new row and column properties are needed now for grids, and that those properties should not be blocked whilst we sort out non-interactive table roles. Therefore, I was tasked with the following: 1. Create a new branch which just have those properties, without the under-discussion new roles for non-interactive tables. 2. Add the [ARIA 1.1] indicators on those new properties. 3. Modify the text related to unknown/-1 on aria-rowcount and aria-colcount according to Michael's proposed text from the meeting, but making the SHOULD associated with -1 to a MUST as agreed upon during that same meeting. I have done these things. Links at the end of the message. The one thing remaining is whether or not there really is a use case for placing aria-rowcount and/or aria-colcount on elements other than the grid, as Alex keeps asking. During today's meeting we tried to figure it out and discussed it at length, but came up empty. As a result, I was tasked with emailing this list to get that answer. I have done so: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2015Apr/0033.html. For now, I've not made any modifications to remove aria-rowcount or aria-colcount from elements other than the grid because I truly believe that someone had a use case for it. :) With no further ado, here are the links to the properties. Please review them for their applicability to grid with the aim of adding them to ARIA 1.1 in the near future independent of what we do or not do for non-interactive tables. Thank you in advance. * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-colcount * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-colindex * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-colspan * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-rowcount * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-rowindex * http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/table-properties-only/aria/aria.html#aria-rowspan --joanie
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