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Re: Summary and datatables?

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From: Rabab Gomaa
Date: Sep 16, 2013 11:20AM

Hi Nancy,=20
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Data tables require either summary or caption.=20
- If your page is an X-HTML, you can have <summary> or <caption> to pass =
WCAG 2.0 1.3.1 and 4.1.1
- If your page is HTML5, then you can have only <caption> because =
<summary> is an obsolete element in HTML 5. Using summary in HTML5 will =
cause failure of 4.1.1.
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Ref. list of obsolete elements in HTML5
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#obsolete
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Rabab

>>> Nancy Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 2013-09-16 12:53 PM >>>
I am trying to validate a page with a dynamically built data table
and am using a Firefox addon which failed the data table because of
lack of a "summary". Checkpoint 1.3.1 Info and Relationships.

Question: I couldn't find much else about it, not even with the W3C.
Can you help me out? Is a requirement for success of data tables?

Thank you

Nancy Johnson