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

Great, thanks.

I will send the suggestion with both ideas.

Cheers, Alan
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From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:47 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Complex TABLES (headers and IDs) or not - WCAG tutorial  disambiguation

On 12/01/2021 12:44, Bristow, Alan wrote:
> 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

Yeah it would probably make sense (to avoid confusing readers) to make
that bullet explicit. Either with your suggested change, or something like

"Tables with three or more header cells associated with each data cell
(when these header cells don't rely strictly on horizontal or vertical
association)"

P
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