- From: Isofarro <lists@isofarro.uklinux.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:18:42 +0100
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- CC: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
John M Slatin wrote: > Joe Clark wrote: > > <blockquote> > Nobody has provided even the standard three > *real-world* examples that I repeatedly call for and never get. > </blockquote> > > Here is a very small example in which valid code doesn't guarantee > accessibility. The following table validates for HTML 4.01 transitional. > JAWS 5.0 and 6.10 do not recognize it as a table. Home Page Reader 3.04 > handles it properly. The reason why JAWS doesn't recognise the supplied example as a table is because its seeing that each "part" of the table (the thead and tbody) has only one cell in a particular direction, and is making the mistaken assumption that in supplied example the table is a layout table, not a data table. If you duplicate the /table/tbody/tr so the table has two rows, then JAWS recognises it as a table (well my copy of JAWS 5.10 does). This is a good example of the accessibility problem of using tables for layout, JAWS tries to figure out whether a table is being used for tabular data or layout, and in this case gets it wrong. Mike
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