Re: Action-1293 Proposal

Hi all.

I'm going through all the messages again as I work on a branch for group
review.

Regarding this:

On 03/10/2015 03:16 PM, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

> I understand there are cases where it's necessary to put aria-rowcount
> on each cell,

What is such a use case? I think the index properties belong on the
cell; at the moment, I cannot think of a case where the count properties
do. And this:

> but that's a lot of bloat to add it to every cell most of
> the time. Can we allow it to be placed on the row or table/grid element
> itself and be inherited, for example:
> 
> <table role="grid" aria-colcount="16">
>   <tr role="row">
>      <td role="gridcell" aria-colindex="5">A</td>  
>      <td role="gridcell" aria-colindex="6">B</td> 
>     <td role="gridcell" aria-colindex="7">C</td> 
>     <td role="gridcell" aria-colindex="8">D</td> 
>   </tr>
> ...
> </table>

Seems reasonable to me.

--joanie

Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 17:38:50 UTC