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As noted in the comments of https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13614, abbr="" is useful and used for <td> elements as well as for <th> elements. 13614 was fixed (abbr has been defined for th) in time for the CR period of HTML5.0. As a follow up, I asked the filer (James Nurthen) about the use of abbr on td elements, and he noted that although abbr on th was his primary concern, the best outcome with regards to web accessibility would be to allow abbr on both td and th elements. Filing this for consideration in HTML5.1
I think this is already covered in the current spec through your commit: https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e214f469d60202f80b4aec9396caf763f2a3722f I'd like to put forward to use Ian's proposed sentence at: https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b2567ff15727d5dd99ea031e5dbc48dd56433798 instead. I am finding it hard to come up with a use case for abbr on td while it's common on th.
adding a11y TF keyword to get feedback
(In reply to comment #1) > I think this is already covered in the current spec through your commit: > https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e214f469d60202f80b4aec9396caf763f2a3722f It would probably also involve some IDL tweaking to move abbr="" up a level to the HTMLTableCellElement interface (inherited by both td and th): http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#htmltablecellelement ...along with moving the definition and example to that place in the spec. > I'd like to put forward to use Ian's proposed sentence at: > https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b2567ff15727d5dd99ea031e5dbc48dd56433798 > instead. For now at least, maybe we should go ahead and merge in Ian's change, to keep things consistent in the spec?
Yes, let's merge Ian's change in.
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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Discussed in HTML Accessibility TF Meeting on 30 JAN 2014 http://www.w3.org/2014/01/30-html-a11y-minutes.html#item09 RESOLVED to consider for HTML 5.1 Moved to HTML a11y Task Force component on 08 MAR 2014 for additional info.