- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:19:50 -0500
- To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com>, "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, public-html@w3.org, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi James and Gez, James wrote: >> Apparently this was a case that Simon and Ben discussed for the original >> smart headers algorithm that got lost along the way somewhere. I've >> changed it in the table inspector now so that it is handled correctly. Gez wrote: > That's very impressive. I've just tested it with an example that > doesn't use the headers attribute at all [1], and the associations are > all correct. I'd like to test it with a wider range of tables, but the > algorithm satisfies the examples I put forward. If nested headers are > allowed in HTML5, I think that algorithm could work very well. > > [1] http://juicystudio.com/wcag/tables/nestednoheaders.html Thank you James! This is very impressive work. Much appreciated. Thanks to you too Gez for all of your testing. I have updated the headers attribute Wiki page [1] with the nested headers option as a potential solution. I also tried to make that page more NPOV, as Chris suggested in yesterday's teleconference. I did leave some of Gregory's counterpoints in the "Why Headers Should Not be Allowed to Reference a td or nested th" section, which others may what to address. If I missed anything else please add it. James it would be wonderful to have your input on that page. Again many, many thanks :-) [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/IssueTableHeaders Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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