Re: Action-1293 Proposal

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Alexander Surkov <
surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:

> yes but not always though. If that was true then there's no reason of
> putting those attributes on cell or row elements. As I understand a table
> may be loaded in number of parts (Joanie's point iirc), for example:
>
> <table>
>   <tr></tr> <!-- 98 rows are missed-->
>   <tr> aria-rowindex="100" aria-rowcount="50"><tr> <!-- 49 rows are not
> yet loaded -->
>   <tr aria-rowindex="151" aria-rowcount="20"></tr> <!- 19 rows are not yet
> loaded -->
> </table>
>

I'm not sure I understand that example. If the user lands on row 151, how
would you have that described by AT? Aren't there 170 total rows in the
table?

What would be wrong with this?

<table aria-rowcount="170">
  <tr aria-rowindex="100"><tr> <!-- 49 rows are not yet loaded -->
  <tr aria-rowindex="151"></tr> <!- 19 rows are not yet loaded -->
</table>

In that example above, the index of each row, plus the total row count in
the table, is sufficient to totally describe what rows are present and what
rows are missing.

Alternatively, if you want a placeholder for missing rows, I think we
should use rowspan:

<table aria-rowcount="170">
  <tr aria-rowindex="1" aria-rowspan="99"><tr> <!-- 99 rows are missed -->
  <tr aria-rowindex="100"><tr>
  <tr aria-rowindex="101" aria-rowspan="49><tr> <!-- 49 rows are not yet
loaded -->
  <tr aria-rowindex="151"></tr>
  <tr aria-rowindex="152" aria-rowspan="18><tr> <!-- 18 rows are not yet
loaded -->
</table>