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Re: scope on tr?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 13, 2006 3:30PM

ajb wrote:
> In almost all the examples I've seen scope="row" is applied to a th or a
> td.
>
> However a coworker wants to use it on a tr because he's stuck using an
> automated program to convert stuff that isn't HTML into HTML and it
> would be easier. I found one site (City of Austin) that suggests using
> <tr scope="row">
>
> Does this actually work in common screen readers? Does it realize that
> it must be referring to the first cell in the row as what applies across?

scope is not a valid attribute for the tr tag -
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.5

Jared