- From: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:55:58 -0500
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
If you have a layout table you don't want to have a caption that is rendered. Is summary enough in this case or do we need to have a display: none for the caption in the stylesheet or what? Marja At 05:52 PM 2/18/00 -0500, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: >Related to the previous message (technique 5.5.1 Check for a valid summary >attribute, in response to Len's comments from [1] about 21 december version >[2]), the WCAG group concluded that 5.5 applied also to the CAPTION >element. Their conclusion was incorporated into the 11 February HTML >Techniques for WCAG document >[http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#tables]. > >I propose: ><blockquote> >Technique 5.5.2 [priority 3] Check TABLE elements for valid CAPTION element >Discussion Status: >under discussion >Evaluation: >Verify that the TABLE element should have a valid CAPTION element. >Example of a message to be displayed: > This TABLE does not have a CAPTION: A table caption describes the nature >of the table in one to three sentences. For example, "Cups of coffee >consumed by each senator." >Repair Technique: >Allow the author to enter a CAPTION. ></blockquote> > >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2000Jan/0059.html >[2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/ert-19991221.html > >-- >wendy a chisholm >world wide web consortium >web accessibility initiative >madison, wi usa >tel: +1 608 663 6346 >/-- >
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