- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:55:20 -0400
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "wai-liaison@w3.org" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen writes: > On Jul 6, 2009, at 20:50, Joshue O Connor wrote: > >> Ok, if you look at the following complex table at Gez Lemons site, >> Juicy >> Studio. [1] >> >> For a suitable @summary overview you could say something like: >> >> <table summary="A complex table of two halves. Firstly, there are 7 >> columns with the headings Child Investment, Type, Status, Allocation, >> Total Cost of Ownership, Return on Investment, Net Present Value, with >> their corresponding values in rows beneath them. The table is then >> followed by a column called Property that has two sections of >> sub-headings of Budgeted, Actual and Forecasted with their >> corresponding >> running cost values for three weekly periods starting from the 12th of >> December 2005 to the 26th">. > >> [1} http://juicystudio.com/wcag/tables/complexdatatable.html > > > I observe that the actual summary looks like this: > >> <table summary="Child investment portfolios with budgeted, actual and >> forecast running costs for particular dates"> > > > It's much shorter, and it's caption-like. > And it makes an inadequate summary,k though it would make a great caption. Please notice that your "caption" text says nothing about how the data is structured. That's important, very important. Jo;sh's summary has that information. Your caption does not. Is anyone getting it yet? Janina > I think this anecdotal case study supports the notion that @summary > isn't actually used as prescribed--not even by experts. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@CapitalAccessibility.Com Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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