ISSUE-32 Table Summary Change Proposal

Hello Everyone,

I have drafted a Change Proposal for HTML ISSUE-32.

Summary:
The current editor's draft lacks a valid and conforming way to provide
a non-visual, explicitly associated, programmatic, table summary
mechanism for users who cannot see the visual rendering of a table.
HTML5 currently makes the summary attribute obsolete. It recommends
against using the summary attribute.

This change proposal:

* Makes the summary attribute valid and conforming.
* Requires user agents to make the summary attribute visible on demand
with some type of a preference or switch in the user agent/browser.
* Replaces current spec text with suggested text.

Full proposal is at:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/SummaryAttribute20100222

Ideas for improvement are most welcome.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Laura
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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:11:08 UTC