- From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:56:16 -0500
- To: "WAI WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Action from last weeks call to review issue 248[1] and compare to current draft document. How to determine if a table is data or layout: Discussed at length on this mailing list[2][3][4] etc. In summary - If cells can be moved without affecting their intrinsic meaning then it's a layout table. Corollary - If moving a cell affects its intrinsic meaning then it's a data table. Do not use structural markup for layout tables. Data tables must use TH elements. Layout tables can not use TH elements.[4][5] HTML techs document section '7 Data Tables' should be modified: - remove first editorial node re: bug 248 - implement second editorial note re: how to determine table type (subsection 7.11 already indicates that data tables must use TH) HTML techs document section '8 Tables For Layout' should be modified: - duplicate, or refer to, text from section 7 that describes how to determine table purpose (subsection 8.1 already indicates that layout tables must not use TH) [1] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=248 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003AprJun/0257.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2000JanMar/0406.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003AprJun/0290.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JulSep/0349.html Chris
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