Re: Use and abuse of @summary

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:20:32 +0100, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> On digging into philips data a little bit and measuring its effect upon
> users who's screen reading software provides access to the information  
> it is
> found that in the overwhelming majority of cases the incorrect uses of
> @summary are not announced to screan reader users. Why? Because screen
> reading software (JAWS and Window eyes) that supports @summary also uses
> heuristics to suppress the announcement of layout tables to users

I think it would be useful to specify an algorithm for deciding whether a table is a layout table or not -- not just for deciding whether or not to use summary='' but also e.g. for deciding whether <td> should be a sectioning root or not.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:17:47 UTC