Table Techniques

• From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:51:18 -0400
• To: "WAI WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <1b0301c3514b$66d26f50$b040968e@WILDDOG>

Here is a brief summary of the table techniques as we discussed today in the
techniques call:

TH Elements
Data tables must have TH elements.
Layout tables must not have TH elements.

Summary
Data tables must have a summary (can't be NULL).
Layout tables must have a summary. It may be NULL or text to describe the
table.

Caption
Data tables may have captions.
Layout tables may not have captions.

If we agree on these points then a consensus on the details (e.g. text that
the summary should contain) should easily follow.

Chris

Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:51:27 UTC