- From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:16:35 -0400
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 01:49 PM 8/12/2005, Joe Clark wrote: >summary="" is fine if <caption> exists or an ordinary heading or body copy >explains the table. John suggested this, too [1]. How about: test for the existence of the summary attribute and the caption element. As long as one of them exists and has a value/content, the table should pass the test. [1] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JulSep/0389.html> >>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. Fine. There seems to be agreement that a summary (or caption) could be less than 10 characters and be acceptable. --w
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