DocBook table accessibility proposal

[Nancy P Harrison <nancyph@us.ibm.com>]

At the last DocBook TC meeting, it was
proposed that an attribute be added to the DocBook table model for accessibility
purposes. 

<!ATTLIST table
           rowheader (firstcol | norowheader)
#IMPLIED>

The 'rowheader' attribute can indicate either that 
        -
the first column of table contains row headers (value "firstcol"),
or 
        -
that there are no row headers in a table (value "norowheader").

The attribute is the one already discussed
and adopted by the DITA TC

The TC didn't come to a final resolution
on the attribute, but decided to raise the issue in the [docbook] list.
 After the TC meeting, the change was proposed for discussion to the
[docbook] list.  Thus far there's been no response, which could be
taken to mean that DocBook users in general aren't yet feeling accessibility
constraints.




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Nancy Harrison
IBM Rational Software
Phone: 781-676-2535
nancyph@us.ibm.com