Re: Action-1293 Proposal

I don't see a reason preventing rowcount from working on the table element
(I guess same for colcount attribute) but I let Joanie to comment in case
if I miss something.

I would argue that spanned cell and missed rows/columns are semantically
different and shouldn't be used to substitute each other.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>
>