adobe / adobe/spectrum-web-components
[Bug][a11y]: Static Tables can use role="table" and role="cell" instead of role="grid" and role="gridcell"
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Description
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### Impacted component(s)
Table
### Expected behavior
The current Table implementation does not support row or column navigation using the arrow keys. As such, without `selects` or `selected` attributes, it is essentially a static table and, and `role="table"` and `role="cell"` may be preferred over `role="grid"` and `role="gridcell"`.
### Actual behavior
Static Table without `selection` uses `role="grid"` and `role="gridcell"`, without supporting navigation of the grid using arrow keys.
### Screenshots
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### What browsers are you seeing the problem in?
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### How can we reproduce this issue?
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3. Scroll to '....'
4. Check console
5. See error
### Sample code that illustrates the problem
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the Table component and inspect how roles are selected when selection-related attributes are absent. Verify the rendered roles for static tables and confirm the change preserves interactive table behavior; done means static tables expose table/cell semantics without breaking selected or selects cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100