- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:45:30 -0500 (EST)
- To: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
- cc: <spec-prod@w3.org>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Hugo Haas wrote:
> Philippe: also summary on tables.
Philippe was saying that summary, for table should be required:
<!ATTLIST table
%common.att;
%width.att;
summary CDATA #IMPLIED
border CDATA #IMPLIED
frame (void|above
|below|hsides
|lhs|rhs
|vsides|box
|border) #IMPLIED
rules (none|groups
|rows|cols
|all) #IMPLIED
cellspacing CDATA #IMPLIED
cellpadding CDATA #IMPLIED>
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0[3] list this
checkpoint[4] as a priority 3 ("A Web content developer may address
this checkpoint."), but documents are never "too accessible", so I
guess that this change would not hurt.
3. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
4. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/#tech-table-summaries
CMN: The requirement is to have a summary of the table. HTML provides two
choices for this - either through the summary attribute, or through the
caption element (which means the summary is generally rendered).
Chaals
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