- From: Mark | Carbon Chip <mark@carbonchip.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:53:33 +0100
- To: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"In the real world, the only sort of browsers are visual media type" I don't understand this. About a year and a half ago, the seemingly default consensus (as I saw it) with respect to layout tables was to declare it as summary="layout table". Things move on however. I feel that '<img ... alt="" />' is being badly compared with '<table ... summary="">'. The img element is *always* a very simple object; TABLEs have anything from a few cells to hundreds if not thousands of elements that a screen reader will need to decipher and present to the user; if the user is advised at the outset that the table is indeed a "layout table", then surely (whether this layout table has 2 or 2000 TD elements) the said user can make a judgement as to the validity of whether to spend time trying to decide whether the table has an implicit and real data structure or not. Banster -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of David Woolley Sent: 22 September 2005 22:12 To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Tables and the Summary attribute + Nielsen on PDFs > Too, I cannot imagine but just a few instances today where one would use a > blank image alt rather than CSS. This practice is archaic. I don't understand this. In the real world, the only sort of browsers are visual media type, and in the real world most authors let alt default to (illegally) missing or to whatever their authoring tool inserts (e.g. duplicating the src attribute).
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