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the ABBR attribute for TH elements

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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 10.1 Associate table cells and headers (Priority 1 )
Provision 1 : For graphical user agents that render tables, for each table cell, allow the user to view associated header information.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. When table header content is repeatedly rendered by the user agent, the content of the ABBR attribute should be rendered in place of table header content.

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Long Title for Table Header 1 Long Title for Table Header 2 Long Title for Table Header 3 Long Title for Table Header 4
Cell 1.1 Cell 1.2 Cell 1.3 Cell 1.4
Cell 2.1 Cell 2.2 Cell 2.3 Cell 2.4
Cell 3.1 Cell 3.2 Cell 3.3 Cell 3.4
Cell 4.1 Cell 4.2 Cell 4.3 Cell 4.4

Expected results

  1. The user agent should render the content of the TH ABBR attribute when repeatedly rendering associated table header and table cell content.

Source code

<table border="1" cellpadding="5" summary="Test table for table header ABBR attribute">
  <tr>
    <th abbr="col 1" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Long Title for Table Header 1</th>
    <th abbr="col 2" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Long Title for Table Header 2</th>
    <th abbr="col 3" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Long Title for Table Header 3</th>
    <th abbr="col 4" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Long Title for Table Header 4</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.4</td>
  </tr>
</table>

References

  1. HTML 4.01 specification for ABBR

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

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Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:50 $ by $Author: jongund $

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