On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes, that is possible. He also said that would be hideous. :-)
>

he probably needs time to get ok with it :)


>
> One concern is the growth of object attributes and the mechanism to get
> them. Perhaps we need a new interface to object attributes like a hashing
> table.
>

IA2 has attribute method
http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/interface_i_accessible2__2.html#a6cda836322d18e6206e10291b395aa55.
Not yet implemented though.


>
> Rich
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 28, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Alexander Surkov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I'd say the problem is in restrictions of IAccessibleTable as it describes
> the continuous model only, while ARIA allows to have "gaps" in tables. So
> if a table has a gap and spanning right before the gap then we should use a
> mechanism other than IAccessibleTable. Jamie suggested to use object
> attributes which sounds reasonable.
> Alex.
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> I am continuing the discussion on the list. It sounds like we have two
>> models - contiguous rows/columns vs. author specified.
>>
>> Should we say that if the author is going to provide row and column spans
>> that user agents NOT compute the indices? IOW, It must all be left up to
>> the author.
>>
>> It sounds like the issue is that we are fighting with trying to compute
>> the results vs. what the author is putting in.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>> ----- Forwarded by Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM on 07/28/2015 09:31
>> AM -----
>>
>> From: Alexander Surkov <[email protected]>
>> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
>> Cc: Brett Lewis <[email protected]>, David Bolter <
>> [email protected]>, Frank DiPalermo/Austin/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
>> Date: 07/28/2015 09:19 AM
>> Subject: Re: ARIA 1.1 feature status
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, Rich. Here's Jamie's example [1] where putting ARIA span into
>> IAccessibleTable interface may be not trivial. I suggest to move discussion
>> to IA2 channel if possible.
>>
>> [1]
>> *http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html*
>> <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <
>> *[email protected]* <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    That does not make sense. It is essentially the same attribute.
>>
>>
>>    Rich Schwerdtfeger
>>
>>    <M2.gif>Alexander Surkov ---07/27/2015 08:16:15 PM---They are exposed
>>    via IAccessibleTable interface which seems to be inapplicable for ARIA
>>    spanning.
>>
>>    From: Alexander Surkov <*[email protected]*
>>    <[email protected]>>
>>    To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
>>    Cc: Brett Lewis <*[email protected]*
>>    <[email protected]>>, David Bolter <*[email protected]*
>>    <[email protected]>>, Frank DiPalermo/Austin/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
>>    Date: 07/27/2015 08:16 PM
>>
>>
>>    Subject: Re: ARIA 1.1 feature status
>>    ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>    They are exposed via IAccessibleTable interface which seems to be
>>    inapplicable for ARIA spanning.
>>
>>    On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <
>>    *[email protected]* <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>       How do you expose rowspan and colspan for HTML tables?
>>
>>
>>       Rich Schwerdtfeger
>>
>>       <M2.gif>Alexander Surkov ---07/27/2015 04:06:58 PM---Hi, Brett.
>>       All but colspan/rowspan are implemented by Nightly.
>>       arai-colcount/rowcount/colindex/rowin
>>
>>
>>       From: Alexander Surkov <*[email protected]*
>>       <[email protected]>>
>>       To: Brett Lewis <*[email protected]*
>>       <[email protected]>>
>>       Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Frank
>>       DiPalermo/Austin/Contr/IBM@IBMUS, David Bolter <
>>       *[email protected]* <[email protected]>>
>>       Date: 07/27/2015 04:06 PM
>>       Subject: Re: ARIA 1.1 feature status
>>       ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>       Hi, Brett. All but colspan/rowspan are implemented by Nightly.
>>       arai-colcount/rowcount/colindex/rowindex are exposed as GroupPosition 
>> on
>>       cells and rows. There's no understanding yet on how to expose
>>       aria-colspan/rowspan [1].
>>
>>       [1]
>>       
>> *http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html*
>>       
>> <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html>
>>
>>       On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Brett Lewis <
>>       *[email protected]* <[email protected]>>
>>       wrote:
>>          Hi Alex,
>>          I am starting work on JAWS support for the new ARIA 1.1
>>          features.
>>          I wanted to see where you are w/r/t Firefox support for these.
>>          I was thinking of starting with the table related roles, does
>>          Firefox support these?
>>          How about:
>>          aria-colcount
>>          aria-rowcount
>>          aria-colindex
>>          aria-rowindex
>>          aria-colspan
>>          aria-rowspan
>>
>>          Do you have a general time line for all the ARIA 1.1 features?
>>          (even just an ordering of which features will be implemented first)?
>>          Do you have a bug record for these?
>>          Thanks for any info you might have.
>>          Brett
>>
>>
>>          Brett Lewis
>>          Software Developer
>>          Freedom Scientific, Inc
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>>
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