Re: [office] Recommendation to deprecate the is-subtable attribute

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Tue, 2007-19-06 at 12:51 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2007, at 7:08 PM, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > This attribute does not work well with screen readers and the enhanced  
> > support we have in ODF 1.1 and 1.2 is preferred for nested tables.
> 
> So the issue is not subtables per se, but rather how they are encoded  
> in the ODF XML. Can we perhaps avoid arguing about whether subtables  
> are important or not?

Based on the examples in msg00048.html, the discussion _is_ subtables
per se. The proposed "solution" does not involve any subtables. Of
course, in the chosen example, there is no semantic reason for the
subtable which makes the argument seem reasonable.
 
> 
> > A more detailed analysis of the issue is here:
> >
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-accessibility/200608/ 
> > msg00048.html
> 

Andreas