- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 22:50:43 -0400
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "wai-liaison@w3.org" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
A month ago, Laura Carlson clarified the need for @summary: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:57:42 -0500 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0185.html > In the absence of a summary, the non-visual user must investigate the > table carefully and fully, merely in order to ascertain whether or not > it is the correct table, what information the table contains, if the > information in the table is germane, how many rows by how many columns > to expect, the flow of the table, etc. [And later discussion suggested that may it really ought to have been named @datastructure instead of @summary] What information should the summary contain that should *not* be in the headers or the caption? Would the @summary purpose be better fulfilled by just ensuring that it was easy to read the headers as a sort a preview? [I realize that not all tables are properly marked up with <th> -- but I'm assuming (incorrectly?) that authors who can't get that right are unlikely to get an invisible attribute right anyhow.] [My apologies to those whose Cc status I wasn't sure about.] -jJ
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