Re: Table tutorial comment

Hi Sailesh,

the majority of your amendment was covered by my earlier response, just 
a quick note on one aspect here:

On 2 Jan 2015, at 14:27, Sailesh Panchang wrote:

> Amendment to item #5 sent on Dec 31:
> "The only instance where scope is needed in a simple data table is
> where the row identifier is not in the first column like in "Example
> 4: Table with an offset column of header cells".
> should read:
> "The only instance where scope is needed in a simple data table is
> where the row identifier is not in the first column like in "Example
> 4: Table with an offset column of header cells if they are marked up
> as TD and not TH. It is valid in HTML4 to use TD with the scope
> attribute and there is an explicit remark about this in the HTML4
> guidance doc".

While the use of scope in on a TD element seems possible in HTML4, I 
wouldn’t consider this as best practice. With HTML5, scope isn’t 
allowed on TD elements anymore, so I don’t think including this is too 
relevant and would complicate the message that we try to convey.

Thanks again for your suggestions,
Eric


>
> Thanks,
> Sailesh Panchang




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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at Wold Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Tuesday, 6 January 2015 11:45:31 UTC