- 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 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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