- From: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:50:32 +0100
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 04/08/2009, Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually I thought the case is made that it is structural/spatial > nature of the table that is supposed to be included in @summary: > > <table summary="Rows contain destinations, traveling dates, and grand > total. Columns contain expense category and total. The first column > contains merged table cells."> Reading that summary, I don't understand two things: How can rows contain one thing, but columns contain something else? Assuming that the summary attribute contained an understandable structural/spatial description of the table, wouldn't a screen reader user understand that anyway once they have a mental map of the table? In the same way a screen user will not understand a table until they have formed a mental map of it. -- Lee www.webdeavour.co.uk
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