Re: [docbook-apps] Accessibility: adding scope attribute to HTML output

[Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>]

I had to meet accessibility requirements for tables and I ended up
using the headers attribute in each <td> and referring to the <id> of
the corresponding <th>.

This was possible for me because I'm using a separate XSL process to
generate the DocBook XML from MS Word XML. I added code to that
conversion so that it includes colname attributes in each cell. I
thought it got very complicated when I had to handle merged cells.

I posted a simple example and a sample of my DocBook XSL customization here:

     http://wiki.docbook.org/HtmlTableAccessibility

Good luck.

Peter

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, mike 675 <m_mclaug@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> To meet accessibility requirements, we need to add the scope attribute to the
> HTML output for our tables.
>
> Our tables are marked up in DocBook XML, CALS style.
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> Every <th> needs to be <th scope="col">
>
> The first <td> in a <tr> needs to be <td scope="row">
>
> Any ideas on where to start on this.
> I guess I need to cusomize the html/table.xsl stylesheet.
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