- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- cc: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Where cells are blocked into axes, or colgroups, there should be some way of rendering this information (CSS is a good technique - surprise!) Charles McCN On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote: Sounds good to me. Jon At 04:20 PM 4/16/00 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: >Hello, > >As part of resolving issue 235 [1], I'd like to propose >the following note after checkpoint 8.1 and the following >addition to the techniques document. > >Checkpoint and note: > ><BLOCKQUOTE> >8.1 Make available to the user the author-specified purpose of each >table and the relationships among the table cells and headers. > >For example, provide information about table headers, >how headers relate to cells, table summary >information, cell position information, table dimensions, etc. >Graphical user agents may satisfy this checkpoint by >rendering a table as a two dimensional grid and ensuring that >users can find headers associated with cells. ></BLOCKQUOTE> > >Technique: > ><BLOCKQUOTE> >In HTML, beyond the TR, TH, and TD elements, the table attributes >"summary", "abbr", "headers", "scope", and "axis" provide information >about relationships among cells and headers. For >more information, refer to the section on table techniques. ></BLOCKQUOTE> > > - Ian > >[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/04/rfbd-20000410#issue-235 >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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