- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:39:06 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
At 10:33 AM 2002-07-18, Harvey Bingham wrote: >http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/html401/cp1001/1001-AXIS.html The test is just wrong. The 'axis' attribute has no function that pertains to the UAAG 1.0 checkpoint cited. Associations between headers and their associated cells are formed by - the 'headers' attribute - the 'scope' attribute - position of a header ahead of another cell in the reading order of a row or column That's all. The 'axis' attribute associates cells with not-a-cell abstract notions. It should not be considered as a way to satisfy UAAG 1.0. Please read the full text of associating header information with http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#header-data categorizing cells http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#multi-dimension Which makes this clear. The first citation is what 10.1 is about as far as HTML is concerned. The 'axis' attribute is not mentioned until the following section. Al See also: Accessible HTML Tables <http://www.ferg.org/section508/accessible_tables.html>http://www.ferg.org/section508/accessible_tables.html Accessible TABLEs from W3C/WAI (FedStats pitch) http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/06/24-US_FedStatsWorkshop/slide1-0.html There was also an excellent presentation from Ken Nakata at this workshop, but I haven't seen that is it available on the Web yet. FedStats 508/Accessibility Workshop http://workshops.fedstats.gov/FS508Workshop.htm
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