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

[Steve wrote] <td> and <table> and <tr> are data table elements, all table
related elements are data table elements, there are no non-data table
elements.



What I was attempting to say is that according to my understanding of WCAG
2 – some use of TH, td with scope, or ids and headers are required for any
table not used for layout purposes.



Jonathan



*From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, June 02, 2014 8:38 AM
*To:* Jonathan Avila
*Cc:* Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
*Subject:* Re: WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure
to provide role=presentation on a layout table"





On 2 June 2014 13:32, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

Your example of layout tables and images is not the same.  Layout tables
have no data table elements.  Data tables have to have data table
elements.  That would be more akin to saying that decorative images didn’t
need an alt.  That does raise an interesting question.



<td> and <table> and <tr> are data table elements, all table related
elements are data table elements, there are no non-data table elements.

refer to:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#tabular-data


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Regards

SteveF

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