Hi, Pete.

> 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.

It really would be nice to have an example of usage here. What can be
changed in header table so that it shouldn't be reflected in main
table?

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
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>
> 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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