Re: ACTION-128: Draft @summary voting text in conjunction with PF

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> When you guys develop the wording, I'd suggest also having this as an
> explicit option:
> 
> ( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is mostly fine, but should in
> addition make summary="" conforming for authors without encouraging it
> over other options:
>       
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions
> 
> 
> I believe this represents the point of view of many Working Group
> members better than the first two options, enough that it shouldn't be
> just a write-in.

That would be fine with me. @summary is suitable as a solution for what
it is designed to do (overview of complex data tables) and when there
are other suitable mechanisms that are semantically better, they should
of course be used.

Josh