[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32170: List table: sortable column headers accessibility

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#32170: List table: sortable column headers accessibility
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 Reporter:  afercia         |       Owner:  afercia
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.3
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 See point 3 in this NVDA bug report: http://community.nvda-
 project.org/ticket/3566
 Accessibility team, any thoughts more than welcome. See also:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#attr-th-abbr
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673418
 Maybe `abbr` is not universally supported yet, but looks like is going to
 stay with us in the future, see the HTML 5.1 working draft
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/semantics.html#attr-th-abbr

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