<td> and role="columnheader/rowheader"
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Description
@scottaohara,
It seems reasonable to me that an author might want to override the implicit cell role of a <td> using ARIA and instead apply a columnheader or rowheader ARIA role.
Should ARIA in HTML allow this?
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Research direction
Review the ARIA in HTML rules governing and the columnheader/rowheader roles. Use the question in issue #562 to determine whether overriding the implicit cell role should be permitted, then document the standards decision and its rationale.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100