- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:11:32 +0300
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, List WAI Liaison <wai-liaison@w3.org>
On Aug 26, 2008, at 17:29, Laura Carlson wrote: > Source: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Jun/0021.html [..] > Source: > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/TableHeadersTestingBug5822#head-4dd98a1e6b2646ef8c2be83dd7b6c93622e25f4b It seems that the problem description for headers/id is backwards compatibility in case where authors are competent and willing to cater for existing UAs not making good use of <th> semantics. It appears, though, that if client software is not assumed to be frozen, for the next generation of client software the general approach taken by the spec (not necessarily exactly as written) is better than the headers/id approach, since there less room for author error when tables are edited and less participation from authors required, which should improve overall accessibility of tables on the Web scale. (It seems to me that implementation-wise the right place to put the association algorithm is browser engines that report stuff to AT--not AT itself.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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