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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".