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RE: summary attribute on layout vs data tables

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Nov 27, 2002 9:08AM

Short answer... yep. you got it.

In my demonstration sessions, whenever I encounter this type of redundancy,
I turn to the authors/group and say "This is a pen... I use it to write...".
It kinda drives home the point.

Some policies however insist that a Table Summary be present on *ALL*
tables, to which I can only say that the attribute 'summary="" ' will both
validate and satisfy 'ol Bobby (the none-thinking robot-tool with too much
clout)

(Interesting aside... if you run the Bobby on-line test, the resulting page
returns the following <title>Untitled</title>. Yep, real accessible...)

JF


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