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Bug 21583 - Section 3.2.1 Semantics - Non conforming, despite being syntactically correct
Summary: Section 3.2.1 Semantics - Non conforming, despite being syntactically correct
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Léonie Watson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2013-04-04 18:29 UTC by Devarshi Pant
Modified: 2017-05-25 17:43 UTC (History)
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Description Devarshi Pant 2013-04-04 18:29:47 UTC
Refer to the first code snippet that states "non-conforming, despite being syntactically correct."  Note that JAWS 13 / IE8 combination will not pick this up as a data table. Could someone share which AT (or browser) combination detected this as a table?
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-GB">
 <head> <title> Demonstration </title> </head>
 <body>
  <table>
   <tr> <td> My favourite animal is the cat. </td> </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>
     —<a href="http://example.org/~ernest/"><cite>Ernest</cite></a>,
     in an essay from 1992
    </td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>
Comment 1 Devarshi Pant 2013-04-04 19:15:25 UTC
A quick note: On adding <th> to the code, JAWS treats this as a data table. 

-Devarshi
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-15 21:57:36 UTC
Does it detect this as a data table?

  <table>
   <tr> <td> 13,202 </td> </tr>
   <tr> <td> <a href="http://example.org/sources/12">[12]</a> </td> </tr>
  </table>
Comment 3 Devarshi Pant 2013-04-16 13:21:37 UTC
It does not, but when I add a <th> element, JAWS detects it as a table. 

Something like:

<table>
       <th>I am a column Header</th>
          <tr> <td> 13,202 </td> </tr>
          <tr> <td> <a href="http://example.org/sources/12">[12]</a> </td> </tr>
</table>
Comment 4 Charles McCathieNevile 2016-05-05 14:12:27 UTC
Has this been overtaken by Léonie's recent edit?
Comment 5 Devarshi Pant 2017-05-25 13:30:45 UTC
Hi Charles,
What was Léonie's recent edit?
thanks!
Comment 6 Charles McCathieNevile 2017-05-25 17:43:56 UTC
I don't know, but I am pretty sure it changed the section. In any case, there is no longer a table example in the semantics section, and I can't find the example cited at all, so I will close this issue as fixed...

If there is still a problem, please re-raise it as a github issue at http://github.com/w3c/html/issues