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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7056 --- Comment #11 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2010-03-15 11:54:10 --- Discussed in February 2009: The need to separate table title from table info data. Here is Ian's reply: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0690 On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> >> Explanation: One only needs to read the table instruction as long as one >> is unfamilar with the table. Once one is familar with the table (because >> one has gone through it in all directions oneself) one will not be so >> interested the overview anymore. >> >> So, it is not that the caption becomes more important, perhaps, but the >> summary that becomes less important. (It could als also be the opposite >> though: As you becomes familiar with the table, you understand the >> overview better.) >> >> This is also one reason that one needs to distinguish captioning content >> from summarising content. One must be able to know what one refers to. > >Why? > >Consider the example in the spec, with the table for dice. Why wouldn't a >user just learn to ignore the caption once they knew what it said, >skipping past it to the table content? How would the UI be any different >if the user agent knew that the table's name ended at one point and the >usage help started after that point? Surely the user would still just have >to hit the "advance to next block" key either -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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