How can I add an ID attribute to the TH and HEADERS attribute to the TD tag for 508 compliance?

[Pavel]

For Article 508 compatibility, the grid I have needs to have an ID attribute in the TH tags, and the HEADERS attribute in the TD tags. How can I accomplish this with RadGrid?

[Pavlina]

Hello,

In WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 Accessibility Complience demo linked below - RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX satisfies the requirements of "Section 508" for software accessibility:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/accessibility-and-internationalization/accessibility-compliance/defaultcs.aspx

As you can noticed the attributes you are asking for are not required.

Regards,
Pavlina
Telerik

[Pavel]

They are required in my company. Is there a good way of doing it? Right now we are relying on javascript to dynamically inserts them, but it's not an ideal solution.

[Pavlina]

Hi,

We are using the techniques from this page : https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H63 
but you are looking for the one that associate each data cell with the appropriate headers as explained here: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H43.html. This means that it is up to you to decide how to insert the id and header attributes - relying on javascript to do that sounds good.

However, I will forward your request for using this attributes to our developement team, so they can decide which technique would be more sufficient for the grid.

Regards,
Pavlina
Telerik