- From: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:46:51 +0200
- To: "WAI-GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hello John,
You wrote:
>Here is a very small example in which valid code doesn't guarantee
>accessibility. The following table validates for HTML 4.01 transitional.
>JAWS 5.0 and 6.10 do not recognize it as a table. Home Page Reader 3.04
>handles it properly.
<code>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="4" scope="col">Building Accessible Web Sites
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>HTML</td>
<td>PDF</td>
<td>MS Word</td>
<td>DAISY</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</code>
Did not you see that the th-tag is not closed at all, so it can never be
valid or well-formed? i copied the code to a page i am working on and the
validator also told me that the </th>-tag is omitted.
Besides; it misses a caption tag, headers attribute and summary-attribute
for making the table-code also better understandable for non-visual UAs.
Greetings
Ineke van der Maat
Received on Monday, 20 June 2005 18:46:47 UTC