RFR: JDK-8186466: Fix accessibility and other minor issues in java.base

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 8/20/17 4:11 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Again, I am happy to take the current state of this change.
>
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Gibbons 
> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Actually, thead and tbody have no direct significance for
>     accessibility. They provide a semantic differentiation of the
>     content, and provide a hook for different styling, as you have
>     seen for "striped". Also note, although you can have many <tbody>,
>     you can only have at most one <thead>, and at most one <tfoot>.
>
> Looking at Summary of BlockingDeque methods again, we have what might 
> logically be a thead in the middle of a table, and the law of "only 
> one thead, and only at the beginning" might be yet another hint that 
> the html gods want us to split this table.  This could become a nested 
> table with two rows, one for "first" and one for "last", each of which 
> contains a subtable with a thead.

I can investigate that.

I would ask, why is this materially different from a new left-most 
column in a single table, but I guess one response would be that the 
subtables could be striped, which would give visual consistency with 
similar tables.

-- Jon