- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:04:45 -0400
- To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Laura Carlson > A. Consider it a data table and use structural table mark up? > B. Consider it a layout table and not use structural data > table markup > and have it make sense when linearized. Sailesh: A JAWS user can navigate a table containing a form in table navigation mode when not using data-entry mode. The column and row headers are announced (for a simple 2-dimension table) correctly. But as one needs to use the title attribute for the input controls[*], the title is also announced by JAWS besides the row and column headers. This results in duplication. WinEyes and HPR on the other hand do not let one navigate such a table in table-navigation mode and regard the table as a layout table. Such a table is essentially a layout table and should not use structural markup. [*] The reference here is to a table with more than two columns with the first column containing a row header and the first row containing a column header. A 2-column table with one column containing labels and the other containing the input controls does not need to use a title attribute. A form with a 2-column layout can perhaps be rendered with CSS. Sailesh Panchang Senior Accessibility Engineer Deque Systems (www.deque.com) 11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #400 Reston VA 21091 E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com Tel: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
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