Re: proposed clarification of TABLE caption, title, and summary for the techniques document

• From: <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
• Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:44:48 -0600
• To: W3c-wai-gl@w3.org
• Message-ID: <85256874.00570D84.00@d54mta08.raleigh.ibm.com>

>Provide a few word description of the table with the "title" attribute.

PJ: I don't agree with also adding a "title" attribute, it is too redundant
and there are no examples of why it would be needed.  We are asking the
author, tools, and browser to do too much and loose them in the process.
Even if a browser rendered the "title" attribute, what would it add as far
as accessibility in addition to the surrounding text, caption, summary, and
table itself? "Title" attribute was not in the original techniques [1], why
add it now?

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS-19990505/#tables


Regards,
Phill Jenkins

Received on Friday, 28 January 2000 10:52:07 UTC