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Re: what to do when CMS doesn't support table caption or <tfootr>

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From: Angela French
Date: Nov 2, 2011 7:12PM

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>Definitely don't use <tfoot> or put them in as data in the bottom row.
>As noted in the HTML5 spec, there aren't yet semantics for footnotes, though
>it does suggest several alternatives -
>http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#footnotes
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>Jared

Jared, for years I have used <tfoot> for table "foot" notes. You're saying this is a wrong usage? Here is an example:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/tfoot.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#edef-TFOOT

Here is one example of a table, I'm trying to make more accessible: http://sbctc.edu/college/f_tuition.aspx (the top one).