Mario Ivankovits wrote:
Hi Elenh!
I want to use a datatable element and render it as an HTML table
element, following some rules which provide accessibility. As you may
know accessibility rules demand a caption rendered for each HTML
table, and some attributes rendered for each cell of the table.
According to
http://www.ferg.org/section508/accessible_tables.html#contents_item_6.1
I found that the id=/headers= is required for accessible tables,
however, they also state that screen readers may become smarter to read
simple tables.
From the point of html - JSF tables are very simple - header/footer/rows
- no colspan, rowspan, etc ...
So, do you really think its worth the effort? Do you have a real need
for this?
Regarding the caption, if this is not supported, I'll help you out,
please open a JIRA at issues.apache.org/jira
Ciao,
Mario
Hi!!
First of all, thank you a lot for the immediate reply.
In my previous post I forgot to mention that I'm using My Faces through
the project seam of JBoss. Seam adds some new tags but the element
<datatable> I use comes from My Faces.
(so I don't think that this changes the facts, but I just wanted to make
this known so as to give the whole picture)
I know that the "id=/headers=" issue is not so much of importance, but
the project I'm working on, demands full support of accessibility rules.
Thus I need to provide these attributes.
Any ideas ?? You would help me a lot.
Now, concerning the caption, I have searched and found a relevant JIRA
issue, where this bug is reported (almost a month ago) and which appears
to be closed.
While searching in the svn repository to find the version with this bug
fixed I found that the change (concerning the caption) was removed a
little time afterwards.
(Except from this, I found it difficult to get all the source needed by
maven to build a version of myfaces--because of the directory structure
followed in each version)
The JIRA issue is found at :
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-1184?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion:subversion-commits-tabpanel
The version with the changes is found at :
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=411443
Should I open a new JIRA issue??
Thank you in advance.
Elenh
