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From: ejp10
Date: Mar 2, 2011 8:24AM

Due to the various legal issues, our university is looking to improve implementation of accessibility.

One suggestion I have heard is to include a SUMMARY attribute for every HTML table, but I am seeing conflicting information about it.

Some sources say the summary is to summarize trends in the data, but others say it is to specify table structure (although I thought the CAPTION tag and the SCOPE/headers tags dis that as well. What are opinions on this topic? Are there any good sources of code snippets we could look at?

Any information/opinions appreciated.

Thanks

Elizabeth

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Elizabeth J. Pyatt
Instructional Designer