> Rob has indicated that at least JAWS would prefer to deal with header tables. 
>  If this a roadblock for Adobe?
No, it is not a roadblock for us.

> Is the creation of header tables awkward enough and the use of relations 
> appealing enough that we should consider deprecating IATable::rowHeader and 
> columnHeader?
I see these as two separate issues.
1. specialized methods in the interface to retrieve column/row headers vs. 
using the relation mechanism.
2. in the specialized method variant, do we want to return a table header or 
simply an ordered array.

I was proposing to keep specialized methods in the interface, but that they 
would return an ordered array and not a table object as they do in the current 
specs.

Best regards,

--Andres.



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Andres, To determine the reason we'd have to go back to the discussions that 
took place when the Java a11y API was developed.

Rob has indicated that at least JAWS would prefer to deal with header tables.  
If this a roadblock for Adobe?

Is the creation of header tables awkward enough and the use of relations 
appealing enough that we should consider deprecating IATable::rowHeader and 
columnHeader?
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Andres Gonzalez wrote:

I very much second James's observation about the awkwardness of having to 
return a table object as the row or column header for a cell. Was there a 
reason behind that decision? Is it too late to reconsider an amendment? (smile)

Best regards,


--Andres.





-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] rowHeader/columnHeader
implementationproposal

On 29/05/2009 9:58 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:


Having said this, it just occurred to me that using described by
relations is problematic in that you can't determine what


is a column


header and what is a row header without querying the row and column
coordinates for the header cell


James, I think you just need to get a role of related


accessibles. Do


I miss something?


Nope, I did. Sorry. I forgot there were roles for row header
and column
header. My concern is thus invalid. :)

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