RE: Headers for tables used for layout

That sounds as potentially irritating as the original problem!

I seriously do recommend actually USING a voice browser or text browser,
otherwise you will get no idea of proportion or feel for how things go
together. I really couldnt understand a lot of the issues until I started
working with alternative browsers.

Denise

-----Original Message-----
From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman1@home.com]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:16 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; William R Williams/R5/USDAFS
Subject: Re: Headers for tables used for layout


yeah, but I don't want to hear:
"summary: this table is used for lay out only" on 50 thousand tables.

----- Original Message -----
From: "William R Williams/R5/USDAFS" <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: Headers for tables used for layout



It seems to me the recommended technique is to include the summary
attribute for the table tag, as demonstrated on the opening page of the
W3C
site:

<table
summary="Layout table: The first cell contains a navigation bar of W3C
technologies, the second contains news, and the third another navigation
bar of W3C pages.">

Bill




                    Viral.Patel@exi
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                    11/19/01 07:17
                    AM






Hi Everybody

I use InFocus 4.1 for checking pages for accessibility, it shows
violation
for a table, but I have used the table only for layout, so I don't want
to
specify headers for it.
Is there any way, I can put additional tags in the <table so that screen
reader considers it has a layout table, not data table?

Thanks
Viral Patel

Received on Monday, 19 November 2001 12:22:13 UTC