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Re: Table SUMMARY Tag
From: Barker.Diane
Date: Mar 2, 2011 9:03AM
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Hi,
More information can be found here -
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H73.
Diane
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Michael J
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 7:53 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Table SUMMARY Tag
Ms Pyatt,
The summary attribute is not visually displayed in a browser. It's
purpose is to assist users of assistive technology to understand the
structure of the table. E.g.
<table summary="this table lists responses to survey questions by
sub-group. Responses for each sub-group are provided as absolute
numbers, and percentage of whole.">
-- Mike
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Subject: [WebAIM] Table SUMMARY Tag
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
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