RFR: 8184208: update class="striped" tables for accessibility
Lance Andersen
lance.andersen at oracle.com
Wed Jul 12 17:41:59 UTC 2017
Looks good Jon.
> On Jul 11, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Please review this auto-generated update to improve the accessibility of many of the tables
> in the API docs for the java.base module.
>
> The changes are just to the HTML markup for selected tables;
> there is no change to the wording of any documentation.
>
> This update was generated by a utility program that looks for tables using the
> CSS style class "striped", and updates those tables as follows:
>
> * header cells (<th>) in the <thead> now declare scope="col"
> * the first data cell (<td>) in each row in the <tbody> are changed to <th>
> and declare scope="row".
> Although these cells are changed from <td> to <th>, the CSS still uses font-weight-normal for
> these cells.
>
> The changes are in line with HTML 5 and WCAG 2.0.
>
> This update does not include the following tables, which will be done separately (manually)
>
> * tables with CSS class "borderless" (18), "plain" (37), or no class (6)
> * tables in java.time.chrono (5): although these table use "striped",
> the first column does not contain unique values, and is therefore unsuited for the
> automated update
>
> All the modifiied tables have been visually checked with an accessibility checker.
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8184208
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8184208/webrev.00/
> API: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8184208/api.00/
>
> -- Jon
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