Re: About ccategory- simple data tables with one header

Jon,
>>There are just some situations where no cell acts as a row header
I did acknowledge in my email (see link#1)  that sometimes, one will
need to concatenate  two/three cells using headers-id method  in order
to provide a  unique row identifier even for a simple table when the
header-data relation is not very strong or unambiguous.
That may be  tedious  / impractical.
But in order to allow users to experience the functionality offered by
the table markup, exposing  one column as a row header with the scope
attribute  will  surely help if it cannot be marked up as TH.

Consider the 3 column table  in the tutorial with Date, Event, Venue
as column headers.
I agree the date by itself does not serve as a row identifier but in
this case perhaps the event name does.
I know the scope will work on cells  to the right of it but providing
it on  what the author considers the best  candidate for a row
identifier will surely help SR users at least.

The table "presentation" conveys "relationships"  and offers
"functionality" ...these should be perceivable / available to AT users
as well.   (Refer H51 and  normative definitions of the 3 terms).
Thanks,
Sailesh Panchang

Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:24:28 UTC