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Subject: Re: [office] Question on table headers
Rob,
Actually, typical spreadsheet applications like OOo Calc support table
row or column headers that are in the middle in the table. I'm not a
spreadsheet expert, but on use case I may think of is if you want to add
a Spreadsheet title at the top of the spreadsheet that shall not be
repeated on every page.
Michael
robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> A received a question from Rich on the Accessibility SC, but I didn't have
> a good answer for him. Table headers -- the grammar we specify now is:
>
> <define name="table-rows-no-group">
> <choice>
> <group>
> <ref name="table-rows"/>
> <optional>
> <ref name="table-table-header-rows"/>
> <optional>
> <ref name="table-rows"/>
> </optional>
> </optional>
> </group>
> <group>
> <ref name="table-table-header-rows"/>
> <optional>
> <ref name="table-rows"/>
> </optional>
> </group>
> </choice>
> </define>
>
> The first group in the choice seems to allow table rows, followed by an
> optional table header, followed by optionally more table rows. Does
> anyone know what that is allowed? Are there any implementations that
> allow you to define a table header in the middle of a table? What am I
> missing? We're trying to figure out 1) how this would be rendered if it
> is allowed, especially when it flows onto a second page and you repeat the
> headers, and 2) how to expose this for accessibility. Certainly it would
> be unkind to start reading the table rows and then start reading the
> headers only later.
>
> The more typical option is the 2nd group in the choice, where the table
> header comes first, optionally followed by more table rows. Column
> headers are parallel to this and allow the same two options.
>
> -Rob
>
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