- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:04:55 +0200
- To: "Steve Axthelm" <steveax@pobox.com>
- Cc: "Shelley Powers" <shelley.just@gmail.com>, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:00 +0200, Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com> wrote: >> Thanks. >> >> If this is the case, then it seems to me that the user agent does not >> need to be able to distinguish between caption and summary, and thus >> <caption> can be used for both purposes. > > I disagree. Rolling summary into caption reduces options for both page > authors and for users of AT. It doesn't seem like a great loss to me, but I might be wrong. > As a developer, perhaps a developer who knows the preferences of users > of AT that frequent my site, Seems like a pretty uncommon event... > having summary separate from caption gives me flexibility in the way I > present information about tables. How would you use this flexibility? > I would submit that AT users also benefit from having them separate as > it affords them more granularity in user settings. What settings? -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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