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Re: Table footnotes <tfoot>, <figure> or <section> ?

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From: James Nurthen
Date: May 17, 2013 12:00PM


> - On the other hand, WCAG working group WIKI has a failure of 1.3.1 for
> not including footnotes in TFOOT. [Bruce].
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Techniques/HTML5


Note this is a wiki page which lists potential techniques which may or may
not be developed. I think it is clear that TFOOT is not to be used for
footnotes for a table, but instead for column footers/summaries/totals.
Even for this case I think creating a failure would create a lot of
unnecessary work for developers who have column summaries/totals without
adding any accessibility gain. For this reason I have removed this from the
wiki above.