That is the intent of aria-presentation and it is much easier than trying
to reproduce the desired behavior with style sheets for existing
implementations.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
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Hi all,
I posted this to the ATAG list earlier on.
For an organisation using a CMS that uses tables and one that is locked
into using tables for the modules that it outputs, could the addition of
the ARIA property role="presentation", which effectively removes the
table from the screen reader output, and it descendants, but still
renders the content of the table be useful?
While it is not good to codify bad practice I wonder if this could
improve the user experience? In particular for users of MS Sharepoint?
Just a thought
Cheers
Josh
