Re: Question about Data Tables

Nick Kew wrote:
> Unless perhaps you were misusing the word validator to mean some
> kind of smart-heuristic checker?

Well, this is I have so far:
http://condor.gmu.edu/josh/validator/

To help you through the user checks, the validator generates a text-only, 
de-styled, and de-scripted versions of the page. The text-only version is 
the one I'm currently concerned about. The idea is to re-write the table as 
it might be read in a screen reader.

For example:
Original: http://condor.gmu.edu/josh/validator/tutorial/tables.php
Text-only: 
http://condor.gmu.edu/josh/validator/textonly.php?url=http://condor.gmu.edu/josh/validator/tutorial/tables.php

I've still got a lot of work to do, but you kinda get the idea.

I just wanted to make sure that "guessing" the scope was part of the 
standard, and could reliably be expected from screen readers.