Re: Taking another round at @summary

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.

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