- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:04:15 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: HTML Guidelines Working Group <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I think it would be helpful to indicate in the guidelines under which circumstances authors should take advantage of the HEADERS and SCOPE attributes in HTML 4.0. Stated differently, in what types of situations does the algorithm prescribed in the specification for locating the headers that correspond to each cell, produce erroneous results? One such circumstance has already been mentioned in this discussion, namely, where data cells span columns. Another would presumably occur whenever the first column of the table provides what Al once aptly characterised as de facto row headers, even though the cells in question are contained in TD rather than TH elements. Are there any other situations of concern? We need to enumerate them in the guidelines, albeit briefly, and thereby advise authors when to use SCOPE and HEADERS attributes.
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