- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:32:47 +0100
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
Steven Faulkner wrote: > After last weeks html working group teleconference I undertook a small study > myself: summary attribute usage data ( > http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/summary.html) Interestingly, you used the summary attribute on the table in that page: summary="In the majority of cases summary is used on data tables and used correctly" However, that contains information that would have been useful to me as a sighted user too, but which I would have missed if I hadn't looked at the source. It also doesn't seem to fit the description in WCAG2 about how to use the summary attribute: "... to provide a brief overview of how data has been organized into a table or a brief explanation of how to navigate the table." http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H73.html So, ironically, I would consider this table itself to be an example of incorrect use of the summary attribute. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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