- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:33:04 -0500
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
fyi... > Comment by Ted Drake [1] > > Headers and summary are two attributes that suffer horribly from > ignorance. I strongly feel that they'd be used more often if most > programmers actually knew they existed. > > The table summary is an especially helpful attribute for screen > readers. > > Here's an example of a complicated set of tables on Yahoo! Tech that > use headers to make a product comparison grid usable for screen > readers. It uses the headers and summary attributes. > > http://tech.yahoo.com/pc/1994298603,1994298640,1994303193,1994236700, > 1991688186?full=yes#ytprodspecdiv > > I built this page originally. It wasn't easy but I feel the result > was worth the effort. [1] http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/2007/html5-microformats-accessibility-testing/#comment-143355 Laura
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