Re: Draft text for summary attribute definition

Leif Halvard Silli 2009-03-01 06.39:
> Robert J Burns 2009-03-01 05.33:
>> On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>> Gez Lemon 2009-03-01 02.45:
>>>> 2009/3/1 Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>:
> 
>>>     <caption summary="Summary text."></caption>


    [...]
> And, if one is running the table through some acessibilty checker which 
> tells the author to add a caption@summary, the author might in the same 
> go be reminded about adding caption conten as well.
> 
> (And likewise, if one has added a caption, and the checker asks for a 
> summary, then I think many will find it naturally to add it to the 
> caption@summary.)  [...]

This is also related to how sighted persons perceive a table. We 
perceive it as a collections of cells, in different relationships. 
To us there is one "cell" - or place - that relates to all the 
cells, and that is the caption. To add a summary for the table 
container becomes a little bit ... abstract.
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leif halvard silli