By the way, what kind of table should columnHeader return for the case
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>col</th><th>col</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>cell</td><td>cell</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>col</th><th>col</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
Alex.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Alexander Surkov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Rob.
>
> This index is where header table is started relative main table. I
> think it might make sense for example like
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>cell</td><td>cell</td>
> </tr>
> <tfoot>
> <tr>
> <th>col</th><th>col</th>
> </tr>
> </tfoot>
> </table>
>
> If we would consider dual method to rowHeader, then out argument
> startingRowIndex will be 1.
>
> Alex.
>
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Rob Gallo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Alex,
>>
>> I think this is good.
>>
>> But what is the purpose of the second parameter? I'm not sure this is
>> supposed to be an [out] parameter.
>>
>> HRESULT rowHeader(
>> [out] IAccessibleTable **accessibleTable,
>> [out, retval] long * startingColumnIndex) [get]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> RG
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Alexander Surkov
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:59 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Willie Walker; IA2 List
>> Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] rowHeader/columnHeader
>> implementationproposal
>>
>> Hi, Pete.
>>
>> It's really good question. I can see two cases.
>>
>> 1. If we operate with HTML table where rowspans and colspans are used then I
>> believe you're right. In this case row and column indexes are in sync with
>> main table.
>> 2. If we deal with pure ARIA grid where there is no way to specify row/col
>> spans then we could return header table of the same width/height like for
>> primary table. For example,
>>
>> <div role="grid">
>> <div role="row">
>> <span role="gridcell">cell</span><span role="columnheader">cell</span>
>> </div>
>> <div role="row">
>> <span role="gridcell">cell</span><span role="gridcell">cell</span>
>> </div>
>> </div>
>>
>> I think we should return table column header containing one row with two
>> cells (gridcell and columnheader).
>>
>> Does it makes sense?
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Alex, A question that came up offline: When the column headers are
>>> not the full width of the table what is the relation between the row
>>> offset in the primary table and the header table?
>>>
>>> What I am remembering now is that you will get back a table, and most
>>> of the time the table will have one cell. A table is provided because
>>> there might be n rows in the header portion in which case the table
>>> would be one cell wide and with n rows. Or there might be a cell in
>>> the header which spans n columns. In that case I think you should get
>>> back a table with a single cell with columnExtentAt indicating it
>>> spans n columns. You could also have the case of a header table with
>>> two rows, with the first row containing a spanning cell and the second
>>> row containing n normal cells under the spanning cell.
>>>
>>> Also, one feedback I got was that an AT would not expect to manipulate
>>> the cell in the table header expecting it to reflect that change in
>>> the primary table.
>>>
>>> I am ccing Will Walker in case he has comments regarding AT-SPI as we
>>> will want to remain in harmony with it and also Xing Li since his team
>>> implemented table headers in Symphony.
>>>
>>> Pete
>>> --
>>> Pete Brunet
>>>
>>> a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development
>>> (512) 238-6967
>>> pete @ a11ysoft.com
>>> http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/petebrunet
>>> Ionosphere: WS4G
>>>
>>> Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I summarized all our discussions with Pete about IAccessibleTalbe
>>> rowHeader/columnHeader implementation -
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/TableHeaders. Feedback on this
>>> proposal is needed.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Alex.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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