Re: Issues of @summary and use of data for "decisions"

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:00 +0200, Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>  
wrote:

>> Thanks.
>>
>> If this is the case, then it seems to me that the user agent does not
>> need to be able to distinguish between caption and summary, and thus
>> <caption> can be used for both purposes.
>
> I disagree. Rolling summary into caption reduces options for both page  
> authors and for users of AT.

It doesn't seem like a great loss to me, but I might be wrong.


> As a developer, perhaps a developer who knows the preferences of users  
> of AT that frequent my site,

Seems like a pretty uncommon event...


> having summary separate from caption gives me flexibility in the way I  
> present information about tables.

How would you use this flexibility?


> I would submit that AT users also benefit from having them separate as  
> it affords them more granularity in user settings.

What settings?

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:05:51 UTC