- From: Terry Thompson <tft@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:15:06 -0700
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <003c01c56240$5f610530$0200a8c0@MH350Athompst3>
Hi All, What is the state of the art in tools that assist web authors in creating accessible complex data tables (including prompting authors for table header and table data relationships)? The only tool I've ever seen that attempts to address this from a GUI is HiSoftware's Table Repair Utility that ships with AccRepair, which works ok but assumes the user already has expertise in table accessibility (for example, there's an option "Use the Header ID List wizard to set the values for the id attribute for the header cells that do not have one and to build the list of IDs to use as values for headers and axis attributes" - not all that intuitive for the average Joe). Are there other tools/wizards available? Has anyone ever attempted to create a free web-based accessible table wizard? It seems like it would be a fairly straightforward process to script an algorithm that parses the user's HTML table (which they paste into a form), builds a multidimensional array of the table's elements and their attributes, evaluates whether the table has nested rows or columns, and prompts the user in a friendly manner for any unkwnowns such as which cells are headers and which data cells are represented by these headers, then pieces all this together to rewrite the table with accessibility added. If no one has done this, is there any reason why it would not be feasible? Thanks for any input, Terry Thompson AccessIT University of Washington
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