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From: Tony Trott
Date: Aug 7, 2002 1:17PM

The accesibillity of the web is still kind of new to me, but I am constantly learning! What I am confused about now is the summary attribute. When I run my site through Bobby-WW, it tells me that I must add a summary for tables. The only tables on the page in question are used for layout. I'm working on using CSS for layout but until I can do that I need to use some tables. I don't understand why Bobby wouldn't note that as a "user check" because it seems to say I must add a summary for a layout table. Is this the case or should I just