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Bug 24601 - add tbody/thead/tfoot
Summary: add tbody/thead/tfoot
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2014-02-10 15:39 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2015-06-10 08:49 UTC (History)
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Description steve faulkner 2014-02-10 15:39:34 UTC 
"3.2.7.4 Implicit ARIA Semantics"
suggest <tbdody><thead> and <tfoot> to have a default role of rowgroup with no override restrictions
Comment 1 James Craig 2014-02-11 06:56:48 UTC 
Note that this role, "rowgroup" was added for support of presentation role inheritance on tables, so that you could add it to the <table> element but would not have to add it to the descendant thead/tbody/tfoot/th/td, etc. 

At the time it was not mapped to any API because the rowgroup views were never rendered. Since then, Firefox has started exposing it to some of the platform APIs, but updating the HTML spec to mention this default mapping is mostly informative, as there is no real need to expose these views to the accessibility APIs.
Comment 2 steve faulkner 2015-06-10 08:47:18 UTC 
move to aam - note aria rowgroup role http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#rowgroup
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2015-06-10 08:49:37 UTC 
moved to html aam spec