Re: EOWG Tables tutorial worksession Monday 5 May

Hi Denis,

thank you for this research.

On 2 May 2014, at 20:47, Denis Boudreau wrote:

> As promised this morning, here are a few test cases to validate the 
> support and behaviours of “irregular" data tables, to which a the 
> first column would all be header cells with the information organized 
> as rows instead of columns. The TH elements have been assigned a scope 
> attribute in the first example, and no such attributes in the second 
> example. Findings are reported under each example. The third example 
> is only there to compare behaviours when the header cells are on the 
> first row as opposed to the first column. Results are… well… 
> disappointing. Unless I missed something, we need to reconsider the 
> examples accordingly (or at the ver least, thoroughly test how is 
> table is conveyed in various browser/at combinations):
>
> http://denisboudreau.org/stuff/eowg/scopedtable-example.html

AT support for tables seems to be nowhere near where it should be, even 
your example below seems to fall apart pretty miserably in Voice Over 
(or I’m using it wrong, which is likely).

> While I’m very confident about the reliability of the tests under 
> VoiceOver and NVDA, I’m less confident about JAws, which I barely 
> use. So anyone willing to double check that is more than welcomed to 
> do so.
>
> As usual, questions and comments are welcomed.
>
> Also, I had mentioned proposing another complex table example for 
> multiple rows of header cells and/or multiple columns of header cells. 
> This example is below:

(I have put it online here: http://jsbin.com/cosov/1)


I noticed – with my limited VO knowledge – that when I get into the 
“Store 1” cell it reads “Quantity, Apples, Store 1” which is not 
what we want although we explicitly told the cell that we want 
“Quantity, Store 1” spoken. For “Store 2” I get no header read 
at all.

When I get to Apples, it reads “Macintosh, Apples”. On “Spartan” 
the output for me is just “Varieties, Spartan”. In the Spartan / 
Quantity 1 cell it announces “Quantity, 50” without announcing 
“Store 1”, “Apples” or “Spartan”.

That said, I like the example and we should have a look of bringing it 
into the tutorials.

Best, Eric



> <table>
> <caption>Fruits Inventory</caption>
>  <thead>
>   <tr>
>    <td rowspan="2">&#160;</td>
>    <th id="variety" rowspan="2">Varieties</th>
>    <th id="quantity" colspan="2">Quantity</th>
>    <th id="delivery" rowspan="2">Delivery</th>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>    <th id="store1" headers="quantity">Store 1</th>
>    <th id="store2" headers="quantity">Store 2</th>
>   </tr>
>  </head>
>  <tbody>
>   <tr>
>    <th rowspan="2" id="apples">Apples</th>
>    <th id="spartan" headers="variety apples">Spartan</th>
>    <td headers="quantity store1 apples spartan">50</td>
>    <td headers="quantity store2 apples spartan">50</td>
>    <td headers="delivery apples spartan">June 1st</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>    <th id="macintosh"headers="variety apples">MacIntosh</th>
>    <td headers="quantity store1 apples macintosh">50</td>
>    <td headers="quantity store2 apples macintosh">50</td>
>    <td headers="delivery apples macintosh">June 15th</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>    <th id="oranges">Oranges</th>
>    <th id="navel"headers="variety oranges">Navel</th>
>    <td headers="quantity store1 oranges navel">100</td>
>    <td headers="quantity store2 oranges navel">100</td>
>    <td headers="delivery oranges navel">June 30th</td>
>   </tr>
>  </tbody>
> </table>



>
>
> /Denis
>
>
>
> On May 2, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi EOWG folks,
>>
>> We will have another worksession on the Tables Tutorial, focusing on 
>> <https://w3c.github.io/wai-tutorials/tables/caption-summary/> and 
>> <https://w3c.github.io/wai-tutorials/tables/tips/>
>>
>>  Monday 5 May 2014
>>  1:00 Central / 2:00 Eastern / 20:00 CEST
>>
>> Remember to get all your comments on the Tables Tutorial into Github, 
>> e-mail, *or* wiki 
>> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Tutorials/Feedback/Tables> *by Wed 7 
>> May* so that Eric can address everything and prepare for a (hopefully 
>> final) discussion at our 9 May teleconference.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ~Shawn
>>




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Received on Monday, 5 May 2014 07:31:34 UTC