- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:16:46 +0100
- To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
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
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