Re: WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure to provide role=presentation on a layout table"

Note: HTML5 requires role=presentation on layout tables

" If a table is to be used for layout it MUST be marked with the attribute
role="presentation" for a user agent to properly represent the table to an
assistive technology and to properly convey the intent of the author to
tools that wish to extract tabular data from the document."

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#the-table-element
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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 1 June 2014 10:14, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure to provide
> role=presentation on a layout table"
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/track/issues/23
>
> Raised by: David MacDonald
> On product:
>
> We should consider a new "Failure to provide role=presentation on a layout
> table." In the old days there were many wars about whether to allow layout
> tables. wai aria has now solved the issue pretty well and we should
> consider requiring it now on layout tables.
>
>
>
>