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Re: Using labels or table headers on nested editable elements inside data cells?

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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: Jan 10, 2017 11:30AM

Yes, the role of presentation is used to strip an element of its semantic meaning. In the case of a table, the semantic meaning is that it contains tabular data. Since the table is to be used for layout purposes only, we strip out the tabular semantics of the element with role="presentation".

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using labels or table headers on nested editable elements inside data cells?

this has been coming up a lot lately here. in this example the table is actualy data. but it it is reely just a lay out table should the role of presentation be used on the table so the table verbosaty is not ther as well

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I know the code provided was just an example, but what is it that
> differentiates the various rows of inputs in this table setup? Surely
> you'd also need some way of tying the age/number field with the name
> field otherwise the prompt is ambiguous.
>
> In the corresponding form not laid out in a table I'd be using
> fieldset and legend to link the inputs. But here, could you also have
> the id of the name field included in the aria-labelledby? Has anyone tried doing that.
>
> I'd want to test this in mobile situations with Voiceover and Talkback too.
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >
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