- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:47:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: <jbrewer@w3.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>, <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, <lguarino@adobe.com>
aloha, gez! i took your advice and added the merriam-webster table in its raw form to the HTML WG's wiki space: Wiki Discussion of HTML Table Accessibility: [http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/TableAccessibility] which also points to a test page i built using the CSS2 Table syntax: [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Jun/att-0006/table-id-headers-axis.html] adapted from an example in the CSS2 TR - more details about the origins of the test page (the subject line is quote example of TABLE using id/header and axis (adapted from CSS2, Section 17.7) unquote) is archived at: [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Jun/0006.html] gregory. ---- Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com> wrote, quote: > > http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/indoeuro.htm > > This table will be useful to the HTML working group (in its current > form, marked up correctly with just scope, marked up correctly with > just the headers attribute, and marked up correctly with both scope > and the headers attribute), but they're also after irregular tables, > where the headers for a particular data cell aren't necessarily in the > same row or column. Although this table is complex in that there are > multiple layers of headers, they're easily resolved using the scope > attribute. They need examples that can't be resolved with scope, and > requires the headers attribute to unambiguously associate headers with > data cells. They're aware that the headers attribute is better > supported by assistive technology than scope, but aren't convinced > that there is a need for the attribute, as every example they've seen > would work with just the scope attribute. -- "He who lives on Hope, dies farting." -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack -- Gregory J. Rosmaita, unagi69@concentric.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/
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