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Subject: Action Item: Requirements for Table Support in a presentation

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
To: Yue MA <mayue@cn.ibm.com>, [email protected], [email protected], Nathaniel S Borenstein <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:24:27 -0600

Ma Yue, Michael,

I had an action item to futher define requirements for what is needed for tables in presentations:

We must be able to:

Determine what elements are row and column headers
Determine what the row and column headers are for a table cell
Determine the rows of the table and the table data cells
We need to determine row and column header spans
We need this in the spec. by June, or sooner, if companies are going to support these in products in time for 2007
Get column/row descriptions
Retrieve a table caption if available
Retreive a table summary if availalble

This is a show stopper.

If you go to the url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/ and lookup javax.accessibility and find AccessibleTable. The markup must support the platform accessibility API when mapped by the .odp rendering application:

This interface has the following interface.

`�Accessible`	`getAccessibleAt(int�r, int�c)` ��Returns the Accessible at a specified row and column in the table.
`�Accessible`	`getAccessibleCaption()` ��Returns the caption for the table.
`�int`	`getAccessibleColumnCount()` ��Returns the number of columns in the table.
`�Accessible`	`getAccessibleColumnDescription(int�c)` ��Returns the description text of the specified column in the table.
`�int`	`getAccessibleColumnExtentAt(int�r, int�c)` ��Returns the number of columns occupied by the Accessible at a specified row and column in the table.
`�AccessibleTable`	`getAccessibleColumnHeader()` ��Returns the column headers as an AccessibleTable.
`�int`	`getAccessibleRowCount()` ��Returns the number of rows in the table.
`�Accessible`	`getAccessibleRowDescription(int�r)` ��Returns the description of the specified row in the table.
`�int`	`getAccessibleRowExtentAt(int�r, int�c)` ��Returns the number of rows occupied by the Accessible at a specified row and column in the table.
`�AccessibleTable`	`getAccessibleRowHeader()` ��Returns the row headers as an AccessibleTable.
`�Accessible`	`getAccessibleSummary()` ��Returns the summary description of the table.
`�int[]`	`getSelectedAccessibleColumns()` ��Returns the selected columns in a table.
`�int[]`	`getSelectedAccessibleRows()` ��Returns the selected rows in a table.
`�boolean`	`isAccessibleColumnSelected(int�c)` ��Returns a boolean value indicating whether the specified column is selected.
`�boolean`	`isAccessibleRowSelected(int�r)` ��Returns a boolean value indicating whether the specified row is selected.
`�boolean`	`isAccessibleSelected(int�r, int�c)` ��Returns a boolean value indicating whether the accessible at a specified row and column is selected.
`�void`	`setAccessibleCaption(Accessible�a)` ��Sets the caption for the table.
`�void`	`setAccessibleColumnDescription(int�c,` `Accessible�a)` ��Sets the description text of the specified column in the table.
`�void`	`setAccessibleColumnHeader(AccessibleTable�table)` ��Sets the column headers.
`�void`	`setAccessibleRowDescription(int�r,` `Accessible�a)` ��Sets the description text of the specified row of the table.
`�void`	`setAccessibleRowHeader(AccessibleTable�table)` ��Sets the row headers.
`�void`	`setAccessibleSummary(Accessible�a)` ��Sets the summary description of the table

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Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
blog: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=441

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