file thingy: table scope

David Bolter david.bolter at utoronto.ca
Wed May 7 18:51:04 UTC 2008


A little follow up to our brief chat...

The scope attribute might be good to add to the file list table. So, for 
your column headers you can add scope, for example: <th 
scope="col">Name</th>. You could also experiment with the same for the 
rows, for example in your case you could make the image title cells 
<th>s with scope:

<th scope="row">img-32423nf8.png</th>...

With this markup, a user should know where they are (i.e. have context) 
when exploring each cell even with the most silly of screen readers.

I like your idea of constructing a nice (programmatically constructed) 
title attribute for the remove button, and also your idea of styling the 
row when keyboard focus is on a button, similar to hover. Nice.

I don't think we need wai-aria for this UI chunk. I'm going to wait on 
the progress bar thing; my usual suspects aren't online ATM.

cheers,
D




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