- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:25:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, 'Jonas Sicking' <jonas@sicking.cc>, 'David Singer' <singer@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > (and again: "The wider web is not an example of good practice.") > > Is there a less wide web where @summary actually serves it's purpose > well? This question was asked before, and a less wide web consisting of pages written or maintained by authors with a high level of motivation to correctly use summary="" were offered. However, a study of that data actually showed that the use of summary="" on those pages was a net loss to the accessibility of pages for people who did not use ATs. (Indeed, those pages were a big part of the reason why I proposed using <caption> instead of summary="", to make the table help text universally accessible instead of making it only visible to certain users.) A detailed analysis of this "less wide web" can be found in this e-mail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0601.html ...starting from the paragraph that reads "Thank you! Real data always helps us make better decisions". If anyone can find another "less wide web" that actually shows usage of summary="" that is actually optimal, I would be very happy to examine this data. As far as I'm aware, no new data has been brought up since that February e-mail. (Notwithstanding that, I will be looking at many of the summary-related e-mails that were sent in the past few days as I go through the outstanding collected feedback.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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