ISSUE-32 table-summary - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

The current status for this issue:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-032

- We have a Working Group draft that suggests that other techniques be 
used to provide explanatory text for complex tables for users of screen 
readers, and requires conformance checkers to issue a warning upon 
encountering a table summary attribute.
- We have a Change Proposal to add a table@orientation attribute;
make summary non-obsolete and include an extended example; add DOM APIs 
to get the headers for a cell; and to retain the warning for summary and 
add a warning for tables with a caption, figure legend, or aria-describedby.
- We have another Change Proposal to make the summary attribute fully 
conforming and allow visual UAs to optionally expose it.

At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit alternate Change
Proposals (possibly with "zero edits" as the Proposal Details), in
case anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a different
change than the specific one in the existing Change Proposals.

If no counter-proposals or alternate proposals are received by July
23rd, 2010, we proceed to evaluate the change proposals that we have 
received to date.

- Sam Ruby

Received on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:16:02 UTC