Rob. I treat the documentation http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.4 as we should provide relations. Do you think it's rather header tables than relations?
Alex. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Rob Gallo <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > > I actually don't like the idea of described by relations for table headers. > It's non-standard, and it blurs the line between the table interface and > relations. In my mind, they have separate purposes. > > > > Thanks, > RG > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alexander Surkov > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:27 AM > To: IA2 List > Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] rowHeader/columnHeader > implementationproposal > > One more question. Since described_by/description_for relations are exposed > on cells and header cells both, i.e. multiple described_by relations should > be exposed on cell to link it with row and column header cells, then how > much does this overlap with idea of IAccessibleTable for headers? I mean > when does AT need to have header table taking into account they can get some > information from relations? Idea when AT might need header table was there > might exist tables where relation targets order (which corresponds to DOM > hierarchy) doesn't satisfy to AT needs. > > James Teh suggested to consider the following example > > <table> > <tr> > <th>Product</th><th>Bugs fixed</th> > </tr> > <tr> > <th colspan="2">2008</th> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>NVDA</td><td>50</td> > </tr> > <tr> > <th colspan="2">2009</th> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>NVDA</td><td>30</td> > </tr> > </table> > > Possibly relations might be not very helpful here. But what kind of column > header table do we expect here? > > Alex. > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Alexander Surkov > <[email protected]> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 > > _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
