Re: About ccategory- simple data tables with one header

Hi Jonathan,

On 1 Jul 2015, at 15:12, Jonathan Avila wrote:

[…]

> Also of confusion in the tutorial is the use of scope in examples with 
> ids and headers.  There is no advice on whether use of scope alongside 
> ids and headers is wrong or required.
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/multi-level/
> The tutorial also incorrectly states "By using the row value for scope 
> assigns the header cells in the second column to data cells on the 
> left and the right of the individual header cell."  When in fact it 
> only applies to the right in LTR languages.

Direct link to the example: 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/two-headers/#table-with-an-offset-column-of-header-cells

Thanks for pointing that out, I wasn’t aware of this behavior. One 
always learns new things :-)

Do you know if this behavior is consistently supported in browsers and 
assistive technologies?

Am I right that the behavior that the tutorial wants to archive would 
only be possible with by creating a rowgroup for every row (using 
multiple tbodys) and using scope="rowgroup"?

```
[…]
</tbody>
<tbody>
   <tr>
     <td>215</td>
     <th scope="rowgroup">Abel</th>
     <td>5</td>
     <td>2</td>
     <td>0</td>
     <td>0</td>
     <td>0</td>
     <td>3</td>
   </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
[…]
```

This strikes me as pretty clumsy and unintuitive…

Best,
Eric

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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at Wold Wide Web Consortium (W3C)