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Re: Table Techniques - Summary

From: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:14:52 -0700
Cc: "'Chris Ridpath'" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>, "'WAI WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
To: "Ben Caldwell" <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu>
Message-Id: <0F548CF4-C9B3-11D7-BDF6-000393B628BC@w3.org>


On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 07:41  AM, Ben Caldwell wrote:

> I would suggest that the presence of the <TH> element is a better 
> indicator
> of an author's decision about whether a table is a layout table or not.

That's right. I forgot about that decision.

I still believe that evaluation tools should not consider a null 
summary as a fail, and I think that should be lined out somewhere. It 
is still a technique that's in use, so dropping it outright would harm 
backward compatibility.

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