- From: Ramón Corominas <listas@ramoncorominas.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:13:05 +0100
- To: "J. Albert Bowden" <jalbertbowden@gmail.com>
- CC: "Bourne, Sarah (ITD)" <sarah.bourne@state.ma.us>, "Homme, James" <james.homme@highmark.com>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
J. Albert wrote: > pretty sure summary attribute is deprecated > i use caption element instead I think @summary and <caption> have very different purposes. @summary was intended to "explain" the table structure so the blind user can more or less understand how to navigate the cells. <caption> is just an identification for the table, not for its structure. There has been much discussion about deprecating @summary, but I think it was not because of its usefullness but because there are other means to do the same (although they are not so well accessibility supported, I guess). Regarding the original question, I would say that a layout table with @summary is conveying different "info and relationships" to the blind user, so I would probably mark it as a failure of SC 1.3.1. Cheers! Ramón.
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