Again, I am happy to take the current state of this change. On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Gibbons < jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Actually, thead and tbody have no direct significance for accessibility. > They provide a semantic differentiation of the content, and provide a hook > for different styling, as you have seen for "striped". Also note, although > you can have many <tbody>, you can only have at most one <thead>, and at > most one <tfoot>. > Looking at Summary of BlockingDeque methods again, we have what might logically be a thead in the middle of a table, and the law of "only one thead, and only at the beginning" might be yet another hint that the html gods want us to split this table. This could become a nested table with two rows, one for "first" and one for "last", each of which contains a subtable with a thead.