https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24583
Summary: wiki-text should support presentational tables
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.17-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Page rendering
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: brightb...@gmail.com
HTML tables should only be used for actual tabular data, not for grid-based
layouts. When used for layout purposes, tables make it much harder for screen
readers and similar aids to deliver a page's content to the user.
Web designers have been struggeling with this for a long time, since proper
grid-less css-based layouts are quite tricky. Trying to get wiki users to do
this for banners, infoboxes, etc would be very hard.
Wikitext should offer a simple solution for this. Perhaps some variation of the
{|...|} syntax that lets mediawiki know that this table is actually a grid
layout rather then tabular data. It can then make a best effort of representing
that grid in HTML - using div/CSS, or using HTML tables with special markers
(like WAI-ARIA "presentation" role). In any case, wiki users should have a
clean and simple way to mark up a grid layout, and distingush it from an actual
table of data bits.
Grid layouts need to be nestable, while actual data tables probably shouldn't
be. The transition however is not trivial.
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