| Title | Valid code - associations between table header cells and data cells |
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| Description | An XHTML file that is well-formed and valid. The markup uses ID values for the header cells in thead (table header) with table data cells in tbody.
Screen reader users should be able to find the row and column headers when navigating through the cells of the table.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-10-05 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: table
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
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Technical specification: Strictly Conforming Documents .
This test case is intended to pass: the markup is valid and users should be able to navigate the table. However, it is not clear if screen readers support the mechanism for associating headers with data cells by means of IDs.
Three or more accessibility experts.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#ensure-compat-parses.
The user should be able to find the row and column headers when navigating through the cells of the table.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20050211/#4.1_use-spec-avoid-spec-no-exception.
The user should be able to find the row and column headers when navigating through the cells of the table.