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jooyoungseo opened this issue Nov 8, 2020 · 4 comments
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[accessibility] Row names (i.e., stub) have to use <th> tag #678

jooyoungseo opened this issue Nov 8, 2020 · 4 comments
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Currently, stub (AKA, row names) are denoted with <td> tag for html output.

However, this is not a recommended practice for accessibility purpose.

As of writing this issue, the row names are not auto-announced when navigating row by row with screen readers.

Please consider using <th> instead. That will resolve this issue.

Plus, ideally, it would be best if we could add scope = "row" attribute as well.

Please consult with this technical spec.

Reprex

# Load required packages
library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(gt)

# Create a tibble
islands_tbl <-
  dplyr::tibble(
    name = names(islands),
    size = islands
  ) %>%
  dplyr::arrange(desc(size)) %>%
  dplyr::slice(1:10)

# Make a gt table with row names (i.e., stub)
islands_tbl %>%
  gt::gt(rowname_col = "name")
<style>html { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_table { display: table; border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: auto; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #A8A8A8; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #A8A8A8; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_heading { background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_title { color: #333333; font-size: 125%; font-weight: initial; padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF; border-bottom-width: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_subtitle { color: #333333; font-size: 85%; font-weight: initial; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 4px; border-top-color: #FFFFFF; border-top-width: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_bottom_border { border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_col_headings { border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_col_heading { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; text-transform: inherit; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; vertical-align: bottom; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; overflow-x: hidden; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_column_spanner_outer { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; text-transform: inherit; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_column_spanner_outer:first-child { padding-left: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_column_spanner_outer:last-child { padding-right: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_column_spanner { border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; vertical-align: bottom; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 6px; overflow-x: hidden; display: inline-block; width: 100%; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_group_heading { padding: 8px; color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 100%; font-weight: initial; text-transform: inherit; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; vertical-align: middle; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_empty_group_heading { padding: 0.5px; color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 100%; font-weight: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; vertical-align: middle; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_from_md > :first-child { margin-top: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_from_md > :last-child { margin-bottom: 0; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_row { padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; margin: 10px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; vertical-align: middle; overflow-x: hidden; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_stub { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 100%; font-weight: initial; text-transform: inherit; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; padding-left: 12px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_summary_row { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; text-transform: inherit; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_first_summary_row { padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_grand_summary_row { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; text-transform: inherit; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_first_grand_summary_row { padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; border-top-style: double; border-top-width: 6px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_striped { background-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.05); } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_table_body { border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-color: #D3D3D3; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_footnotes { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_footnote { margin: 0px; font-size: 90%; padding: 4px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_sourcenotes { color: #333333; background-color: #FFFFFF; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: #D3D3D3; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: #D3D3D3; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #D3D3D3; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_sourcenote { font-size: 90%; padding: 4px; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_left { text-align: left; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_center { text-align: center; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_right { text-align: right; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_font_normal { font-weight: normal; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_font_bold { font-weight: bold; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_font_italic { font-style: italic; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_super { font-size: 65%; } #yfykbqqfcc .gt_footnote_marks { font-style: italic; font-size: 65%; } </style>
size
Asia 16988
Africa 11506
North America 9390
South America 6795
Antarctica 5500
Europe 3745
Australia 2968
Greenland 840
New Guinea 306
Borneo 280

Created on 2020-11-07 by the reprex package (v0.3.0.9001)

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#>  collate  English_United States.1252  
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Thanks @jooyoungseo ! I'll definitely get this change made soon when I start on the accessibility pass. If you find any more aspects of HTML tables that are suboptimal for accessibility, please file those as issues as well.

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Thanks, @rich-iannone! I have found some more that I will also file soon.

What about we create a new label "Accessibility" to easily track down?

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I was just thinking that! I'll make that label and apply it to this issue (and previous ones).

@rich-iannone rich-iannone changed the title Row names (i.e., stub) have to use <th> tag for accessibility [accessibility] Row names (i.e., stub) have to use <th> tag Nov 8, 2020
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Merge pull request #979 from jooyoungseo/gt_stub
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[Accessibility] Closing #678: Use <th scope="row"> for gt_stub
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Now that #979 is merged, I'm closing this issue.

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