Lynx and multi-level tables
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Mon Feb 14 20:05:12 UTC 2005
Kenny is correct.
By the time we had W3C specs on tables, lynx development was pretty
moribund. Considering this, I find it quite amazing how effective lynx
still is in so many circumstances, but proper access to semantec tabular
data isn't something it provides. Now, I do think it does a superior job
of rendering the use of tables for layout--but that's not what you asked
about.
Kenny Hitt writes:
> Hi. As far as I know, lynx doesn't handle tables. It presents the page
> in sequencial order. For example, a table with 3 columns would have
> column1, column2, and column 3. You will see the headers for the table
> before the columns start, but there isn't any way I know of to
> determine what data is in what column without guessing.
>
> Hopefully, someone will jump in and correct me.
> Kenny
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:00:08PM -0500, Bailey, Bruce wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how the Lynx web browser handles multi-level tables?
> >
> > In particular, does Lynx just ignore HEADERS, ID, SCOPE, AXIS, and the like?
> >
> > The W3C WAI WCAG1 specifies as Priority 1:
> > 5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells.
> >
> > The 508 1194.22(h) standard uses almost the exact same language.
> >
> > In the Windows world, the screen readers make good use of HEADERS and ID for correctly coded multi-level tables. Support for SCOPE and AXIS (used in conjunction with THEAD, TFOOT, COL and COLGROUP) is much weaker.
> >
> > Lynx does a good job with most tables IMHO, even large data sheets, so long as they have only one row of TH for the column headings. I will confess that I do not use Lynx as my primary browser, so I am unfamiliar with its behavior with more complex, but properly coded, tables. I also don't have any sample tables to cite.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
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