On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > One issue is that the ARIA semantics for "implied rows" are not defined. >> >> I'm not sure I understand why ARIA would come into play at all when it >> comes to tables. Weren't tables "accessible" (I realize it has always >> been somewhat hard to convey them properly) long before ARIA existed? >> > > The issue is that, as far as I can tell, HTML 4.01 does not support > "implied rows": > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html > This is new to HTML5.
No, HTML4 supported this; it probably didn't actually have any normative text around it, but browsers certainly supported having a rowspan go past the end of the explicit rows. ~TJ