- From: William R Williams <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:51:56 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
'Twas written: "The table is definitely a data-table with contents of a cells being related to cell contents in adjacent cells." "Sailesh, where are you taking this definition from? I think I like it." "Sailesh: I have always maintained this and had proposed to WCAG-WG in one of my posts. And just a few weeks ago I read an extension to that to define a layout table- if a cell can be moved around such that it does not affect the comprehension of the table, then it is a layout table." I was just poking around the W3C site and came across the following in the WCAG 1.0 glossary: --- http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#glossary Tabular information When tables are used to represent logical relationships among data -- text, numbers, images, etc., that information is called "tabular information" and the tables are called "data tables". The relationships expressed by a table may be rendered visually (usually on a two-dimensional grid), aurally (often preceding cells with header information), or in other formats. ---- If relationships exist, whether or not in adjacent cells, it's probably a data table and headings ought to be identified in some fashion. While one could always make their own interpretations -- and most people seem to do this regularly, the table heading element in HTML works fine as the most simple and elegant solution. Bill Williams
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