- From: Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:39:38 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
(sorry, forgot to copy the list) On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com> > wrote: > ... > > > One issue is that the ARIA semantics for "implied rows" are not defined. > > I'm not sure I understand why ARIA would come into play at all when it > comes to tables. Weren't tables "accessible" (I realize it has always > been somewhat hard to convey them properly) long before ARIA existed? > The issue is that, as far as I can tell, HTML 4.01 does not support "implied rows": http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html This is new to HTML5. WAI-ARIA does define roles for a table (grid, row, rowgroup, gridcell, etc.), but you can't specify the role and state attributes for HTML5 implied rows. I ran through the "forming a table" steps ( https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/tables.html#forming-a-table ) on paper for the example and I came up with x_width is 3 and y_height is 15. If the table model has 3 columns and 15 rows (9 of which are implied), then browsers should expose 3 columns and 15 rows.
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