- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:00:52 +1000
- To: "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Robert Burns" <rob@robburns.com>, "Bill Mason" <w3c@accessibleinter.net>, public-html@w3.org
I was going to talk about <summary> again but in the course of composing this email I decided I'm pretty happy with what table@summary and table/caption offer today: <table summary="The columns indicate sales in different regions and the rows indicate the months of the year. The last row and last column show a total for the month or region."> <caption>Sales of widgets for the financial year 2005-2006</caption> ... </table> Personally I would omit @summary in favour of brevity; trusting in screen readers and their users to cope with the table structure (using good thead/th elements to help with that naturally). I would sometimes use <summary> for additional verbose description - which I feel is appropriate in a <caption> - but I've survived this many years without and I can't say it has caused me any grief.
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