- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:24:51 +1030
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi All Tina Holmboe wrote: <blockquote> The two [table caption and summary] should, in my view, both be present, not overlap, and certainly describe different sides to the table and the data. </blockquote> This raises an interesting point for me. If the data is generated automatically, does this mean should write a programme to interpret it and thus provide the summary? My page at <http://www.mss.cx/current_weather.html> attempts to provide an accessible weather report. The tables are highly marked up to aid navigation (which cell belongs to which headings) and are captioned, but do not contain summaries. I suppose that this would be possible, although it would probably quadruple the code used to produce the page. In such a page, would provision of a summary be sufficiently important for the pages accessibility to warrant the extra programming required? I would be more than likely to do this for my own work as an academic exercise, but does such a thing make a significant difference to the accessibility of the page? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia http://www.kbc.net.au
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