- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 19:19:55 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Linearising a table is straightforward: I could add this capability > to the accessibility proxy in perhaps an hours work. The harder task > is to determine when a table is for layout and should be linearised. > > The parser can look for structural markup: any more structural detail > than the existence of <th> elements will presumably mean that a table > is genuine. OTOH, the converse is not true, so this is of limited > value as a criterion for determining how to deal with it. Perhaps a different approach would be to linearise all tables, but (optionally?) insert content representing the more explicit indicators of structure (axis, headers, scope).
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