- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:07:51 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Cc: wai-liaison@w3.org
Hi Ian, > <Hixie> table headers: i haven't yet seen a clear description of the problem, but if there is a problem, then we'll have to address it http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080825#l-109 Current AT's do not support the HTML5 way of associating header cells and data cells. But they do support id/headers. This means that complex irregular tables cannot be marked up in HTML5 to provide current AT's with the required information about relationships between headers and data. So in order to support AT's that do not implement the HTML5 algorithms, authors who want to use HTML5 will be forced to write non-conformant code. more inf from laura: Joshue O Connor, Gez Lemon and I have completed the deliverable for Action 72. It is at: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action72Headers We request that the definition of the headers attribute in the spec be extended to allow it to reference a td. This would make it possible for complex data tables to be marked up accessibly. The headers/id markup is functional and works today. Results of some recent testing: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/TableHeadersTestingBug5822 This issue's history from May 2007 to present: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/IssueTableHeaders -- Stevef
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