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Re: Using Aria within a table to indicate thata cell is highlighted

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From: David Farough
Date: Jul 5, 2022 6:39AM

You're not alone.
I did not catch it the first time but did when looking closely.
I wasn't sure what the word should have been however, so thanks for that.

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of David Engebretson Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 1:17 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Using Aria within a table to indicate that a cell is highlighted

Strange if I'm the only one that see's the mis-spelling of association and semantic in Birkir's email. Apologies welcome, if so. I don't know what's going on.

I see:
"including moving the column and row header accociation
and
any sematic markup
"


Again, apologies if I'm the only one experiencing this anomaly,
David


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2022 10:03 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Using Aria within a table to indicate that a cell is highlighted

I didn't see/hear any spelling issues. Birkir just said you can't wrap a heading around a table cell as such:

<h3>my heading
<td>my cell</td>
</h3>

It breaks the semantics of the table. All the markup must be in the cell itself as such:

<td>my cell
<h3>my heading</h3>
</td>


On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 10:24 PM David Engebretson Jr. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Birkir, I can only infer what you wrote below. Is your spell checker
> not working?
>
> No offense intended, I've rarely seen you mis-spell words like that.
>
> Am I missing something?
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2022 7:12 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Using Aria within a table to indicate
> that a cell is highlighted
>
> Can't wrap a heading around a table cell, it breaks the whole table,
> including moving the column and row header accociation to the wrong
> cells .. any sematic markup must happen inside the table cell, not to
> the cell itself (except descriptive ARIA attribute like aria-current
> that do not change the semantics of the table element, ditto
> role-description, except it isn't really supported).
>
>