#2744: <th> in Tables
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Reporter: pgde | Owner:
Type: New Feature | Status: new
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: General | Version:
Keywords: Tables, Header Row, Column |
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Work for a Federal agency, We have to comply with what is known as section
508 of the Americans with Disability Act. We are having problems with
tables passing accessibility tests. Here are the two standards:
§1194.22 (g)
Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.
§11924.22 (h)
Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data
tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers
When FCKEditor generates a table it starts with <table>, <tbody>, etc, but
there is NO <th> generated for the first row of the table, it uses <td>.
So, do we need to look at something else other than FCKeditor? Is there a
way to do this programmatically?
We are not allowing our authors to access or modify the underlying HTML so
this needs to be done some other way. We could use <td> with a scope
statement but again that would require modifing the underlying HTML which
we will not allow authors to do.
In the response to the above posting, they suggested that I feature
request the following: extend the table wizard/dialog to include
checkboxes for <thead>/<tfoot>/<colgroup> and a <th> row/column.
Without this, I am concerned that we in the Federal service will not be
able to use this editor since this is a fatal flaw in section 508
compliance. And, as you can see, the sooner the better.
Thanks,
P.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2744>
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