Hi:
Work for a Federal agency, We have to comply with what is known as section 508 of the Americans with Disability Act. We are having problems with tables passing accessibility tests. Here are the two standards:
§1194.22 (g)
Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.
§11924.22 (h)
Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers
When FCKEditor generates a table it starts with <table>, <tbody>, etc, but there is NO <th> generated for the first row of the table, it uses <td>. So, do we need to look at something else other than FCKeditor? Is there a way to do this programmatically?
We are not allowing our authors to access or modify the underlying HTML so this needs to be done some other way. We could use <td> with a scope statement but again that would require modifing the underlying HTML which we will not allow authors to do.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
P.
Work for a Federal agency, We have to comply with what is known as section 508 of the Americans with Disability Act. We are having problems with tables passing accessibility tests. Here are the two standards:
§1194.22 (g)
Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.
§11924.22 (h)
Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers
When FCKEditor generates a table it starts with <table>, <tbody>, etc, but there is NO <th> generated for the first row of the table, it uses <td>. So, do we need to look at something else other than FCKeditor? Is there a way to do this programmatically?
We are not allowing our authors to access or modify the underlying HTML so this needs to be done some other way. We could use <td> with a scope statement but again that would require modifing the underlying HTML which we will not allow authors to do.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
P.
Re: <th>, Tables, Section 508
You can use a template to create a table with the structure you want and use the template button instead of the one that pops up the table dialog.
http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x ... /Templates
I would also enter a feature request at the development site and ask to extend the table wizard/dialog to include checkboxes for <thead>/<tfoot>/<colgroup> and a <th> row/column.
Re: <th>, Tables, Section 508
Anyway, happy holidays!
P.
Re: <th>, Tables, Section 508
step one in http://dev.fckeditor.net/wiki/Bugs states to test the nightly build: http://www.fckeditor.net/nightly/fckedi ... fault.html you can check there that the thead and th support is ready, so there was no need to file another ticket.
I requested long ago help in order to test/fix related issues, but as you can see not too many people are interested in it: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10726