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Re: Document table summaries

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 25, 2024 5:47AM

On 25/10/2024 12:31, Claire Forbes wrote:

> https://ictbaseline.access-board.gov/alldocsbaselines.html - Section 12: Tables references table summaries and that they're not permitted for layout tables, "When <table> elements are used for layout purposes, data table structure elements such as row/column headers, captions, or table summaries are not permitted." So to me this reads that layout tables shouldn't have a table summary (which makes sense because layout tables aren't supposed to even be tagged as a table), but a data table should have a summary.

Purely coming from a WCAG perspective, no, I never consider summaries to
be required. And from the above, saying "Data tables must not have
summaries" does not necessarily mean that the inverse is "All non-data
tables must have summaries".

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