- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:15:32 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
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
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