- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:14:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Ian Hickson, Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:29:19 +0000 (UTC): > > > > What would <summary> do? > > 1) It would make the table summary programmatically detectable for AT. > According to WCAG 2.0 it is important that the table summary is > programmatically detectable. Isn't that handled adequately by ARIA? > 2) A <caption> that contains non-caption content is unheard of in HTML 4 > and in XHTML. <summary> would justify placing non-caption content inside > <caption> (since <summary> carries a "not the caption" stamp). Even in print I've seen tables that include text explaining how to read the table, so I think it's justified enough as is. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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