Re: Complex TABLES (headers and IDs) or not - WCAG tutorial disambiguation

As ever, thank you Patrick.

I havered at the top of
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/multi-level/
re-reading and almost concluded the same, but was not confident enough to accept and move forward.

Your view is very helpful.

Do you think it would be dogmatic of me to contact the Tutorials team and suggest a wording change along the lines:?

<DEL>Tables with three or more header cells associated with each data cell.</DEL>
Tables with three or more <INS>column header cells or row header cells</INS> associated with each data cell.

Cheers, Alan



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From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 6:39 PM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Complex TABLES (headers and IDs) or not - WCAG tutorial  disambiguation

On 11/01/2021 16:31, Bristow, Alan wrote:
[...]

> My confusion and reason for seeking advice is that the first example I
> link to above ('Mars and Venus') has TDs that are described by three
> THs. For example, the TD
> 50,000
> relates to; 'Teddy Bears', 'Produced', and 'Mars'. That TABLE has no
> HEADERs and IDs. However a TD being related to three THs seems to fit
> the description from the second link above, and so there appears to be
> an argument that IDs and HEADERs should be used. The two examples seem
> to contradict each other.

While true that that table has 3 THs relating to cells, that
relationship is purely baed on the horizontal/vertical association. so
it doesn't fulfill the page starter's "Such tables are too complex to
identify a strict horizontal or vertical association between header and
data cells."

P
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