I don't think there is any difference in the case of IA2 in those two
cases.  When asking for the headers a separate table made up of the
first row would be returned.

Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Let's consider two examples:
>
> <table>
>   <thead>
>     <tr>
>       <th>caption</th>
>     </tr>
>   </thead>
>   <tr>
>     <td>cell</td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
>
> and
>
> <table>
>   <tr>
>     <th>caption</th>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>cell</td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
>
> What's about table of row headers in these cases? Should html:thead be
> a table of row headers?
>
> Alex.
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Alexander Surkov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Pete.
>>
>> 1. "the table of row headers and the table of column headers would be
>> kept as objects separate from the primary table". How may accessible
>> tree look? Does it mean tables of row/column headers isn't a child of
>> primary table accessible? If so how will row/column headers tables
>> share children (rows and cells) with primary table? Otherwise
>> row/column headers tables should implement IAccessibleTable interface
>> only. How are such tables useful in this case?
>>
>> 2. Can you bring an example how column/row description can be
>> specified? It would be great to get HTML or ARIA example.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>> Neither IATable::modelChange nor object attributes are good for out of
>>> process AT.  We could solve this for IA2 v2 by inventing a new event
>>> system.  I'd leave the values until the next time the event is fired.
>>>
>>> My understanding is the table of row headers and the table of column headers
>>> would be kept as objects separate from the primary table.  The text you have
>>> specified as "caption" would be returned in the text of the single cell of
>>> the returned table of column headers.  There is no column description in
>>> this case.  If there was one, it would be a separate text object describing
>>> the column.
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>> Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Pete.
>>>
>>> What's the difference between IATable::modelChange and object
>>> attributes for out-process AT? If we'll start to expose object
>>> attributes then should set their values before we fire event but when
>>> we need to drop their values?
>>>
>>> If I have
>>>
>>> <table>
>>>   <tr>
>>>     <th>caption1</th>
>>>   </tr>
>>>   <tr>
>>>     <td>cell1</td>
>>>   </tr>
>>> </table>
>>>
>>> then the first tr element should implement IAccessibleTable, text of
>>> th element is COLUMN header description, the first tr element is ROW
>>> header. Or?
>>>
>>> Alex.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexander,
>>>
>>> The table would fire the IA2_EVENT_TABLE_* events.
>>>
>>> I see there is a problem with the four row/column events, i.e.
>>> IA2_EVENT_TABLE_ROW/COLUMN_DESCRIPTION/HEADER_CHANGED, because you don't
>>> know which row/column changed.  This is due to the fact that the concepts
>>> were taken from OpenOffice/Linux where the row/column is provided in an
>>> event object.  At least for in-process AT we solved the problem for
>>> MODEL_CHANGED with IATable::modelChange.  How about if we add some
>>> additional object attributes to the table such as
>>> row-description-changed-index, column-description-changed-index,
>>> row-header-changed-index, and column-header-changed-index?
>>>
>>> Row/column headers are a subset of cells in the table.  For
>>> ROW/COLUMN_HEADER_CHANGED, IATable::row/columnHeader returns the entire set
>>> (a table) of row/column headers.
>>>
>>> Row/column descriptions are text objects (one per row/column) and they are
>>> separate from the table object.  For ROW/COLUMN_DESCRIPTION_CHANGED,
>>> IATable::row/columnDescription is used.
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>> Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> 1. IA2 proposes couple of events started with IA2_EVENT_TABLE_ prefix
>>> (like IA2_EVENT_TABLE_CAPTION_CHANGED). I assume events target is
>>> table, i.e. accessible implementing IAccessible interface. Is it
>>> correct?
>>>
>>> 2. What's difference between row description and row header? IA2
>>> suggests different events for this
>>> (IA2_EVENT_TABLE_ROW_DESCRIPTION_CHANGED and
>>> IA2_EVENT_TABLE_ROW_HEADER_
>>> CHANGED) and IAccessibleTable has different
>>> mehtods (rowDescription returning BSTR and rowHeader returning
>>> accessible).
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Alex.
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>> (512) 238-6967
>>> pete @ a11ysoft.com
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>> (512) 238-6967
>>> pete @ a11ysoft.com
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>
>
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