RE: User agent support of SUMMARY attribute in tables from Jon Hanna on 2003-01-22 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:14:50 -0000
To: "W3c-Wai-Ig" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHGEMAEMAA.jon@spin.ie>

> > summary="" for layout tables seems an ideal solution to me
> > but then I don't use AT.
>
> Apologies if I missed it, but isn't the title attribute, set to "Layout
> table." appropriate here?

I would be very cautious about suggesting that. The title attribute applies
to the element of the document, including it's contents.

Besides with layout table's being an artefact of implementation surely the
ideal is for it to be as if they weren't there?

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:15:06 UTC