- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:24:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Denis Boudreau <dboudreau@webconforme.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Denis Boudreau wrote: > > For every screen reader user that I put in front of two similar complex > data tables, one accessible and one that's not, I'm pretty sure 100% > would come to realize that the accessible version, thanks in part to the > description provided through @summary, would actually be much easier to > understand. Nobody is suggesting making tables less accessible. The proposal in the spec is to make pages _more_ accessible by transitioning from using summary="" to using a variety of more effective techniques. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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