Re: aria-rowindex and aria-colindex

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Alexander Surkov <
surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a reason to provide rowindex/colindex on cells, it seems like
> having them on role row should be enough to fit #2 use case?
>

It seems a little inconsistent if we *only* allowed them on role row,
because aria-posinset and aria-setsize are basically the equivalent
1-dimensional concept for lists, and they're only allowed on the list item
and not the list itself.


>
> Thanks.
> Alex.
>
>
>>
>> One other thought: it'd be nice if you could put aria-rowindex on the
>> element with role="row" rather than needing to repeat it on every single
>> cell. (Not sure about aria-colindex, but at least the row would be helpful.)
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> Two reasons that I can think of for having aria-rowindex/aria-colindex
>>> in addition to rowspan/colspan are:
>>>
>>> 1.  You can apply aria-rowindex/aria-colindex to non-TD/TH elements.
>>>
>>> 2.  Even when using table elements, if you only have rowspan/colspan
>>> available, then you have to make sure that the table model is "filled out"
>>> to match the table that you are trying to represent.  For example, suppose
>>> that you want to start at row 1000 of 5000.  You would have to have an
>>> empty TD spanning the first 999 rows in a separate TBODY so that implied
>>> empty rows would be created.  With aria-rowindex/aria-colindex, the
>>> separate TBODY would be unnecessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Alexander Surkov <
>>> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi. Can anybody share some use cases for aria-rowindex/colindex? Does
>>>> it serve for other proposes than HTML rowspan/colspan attributes?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Alex.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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