- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:49:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>> Test 112 - All data table summaries contain text.
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/test112.html
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> This seems odd to me, what else would they contain? Is "one printable
> character" actually helpful? What if it is a space character? Instead, how
> about testing that the summary attribute is not null?
summary="" is fine if <caption> exists or an ordinary heading or body copy
explains the table. These last two points have been real-world usages the
Working Group has resisted.
> If you have the previous test, why do you need this one? I don't think this
> test will work cross-languages. Couldn't you have an appropriate summary in
> Japanese that is less than 10 characters?
Chinese is a better example because it doesn't use kana.
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