- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:48:22 -0500
>> TH and TD >> * abbr (I think that's supported by screen readers, but need to verify) > >I don't really see that these attributes actually help anyone. I don't have a screen reader to verify, but afaik abbr= is used to provide a shortened form of the header when it is spoken aloud repeatedly. Leaving it out won't *hurt* anything, but the annoyance of hearing a large bit of header repeated over and over again when the table is complex enough to *need* a regular reminder would be enough, I think, for abbr= to be considered to help people. I use abbr= to this effect in my own tables. ~TJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080324/b057c9cc/attachment.htm>
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