- From: Ben Meadowcroft <cee.plus@virgin.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:28:30 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
> Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca> >> To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; "Jens Meiert" >> <jens.meiert@erde3.com>; <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> >> Cc: <www-html@w3.org> >> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [#293] Summary for tables >> >> >>> >>> <table type="layout" /> >>> >>> The TABLE element does not have a TYPE attribute in HTML4 so, as >>> Roberto suggested, this would cause problems. >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#edef-TABLE >>> >>> Even if approved by the XHTML group this would cause problems with >>> HTML validator tools. >> >> Following your suggestion, an attribute that i think could be use is >> the "title" attribute. As you know the screen readers works on the >> table with the summary attribute. If we create an instruction like >> this: >> >> <table title="layout" summary="..."> > The whole direction of XHTML is away from presentational markup. Hijacking the semantics of existing attributes to create hacky workarounds so you can use table layouts with a "clear" conscience is not a good idea. The only suggestion I am going to make on this is that you could possibly suggest the empty summary attribute, e.g. summary="" implies that the table is used for layout. -- BenM http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/
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