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From: Tony Trott
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 1:17PM
Subject: table summary
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The accesibillity of the web is still kind of new to me, but I am constantly learning! What I am confused about now is the summary attribute. When I run my site through Bobby-WW, it tells me that I must add a summary for tables. The only tables on the page in question are used for layout. I'm working on using CSS for layout but until I can do that I need to use some tables. I don't understand why Bobby wouldn't note that as a "user check" because it seems to say I must add a summary for a layout table. Is this the case or should I just
From: tedge
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 1:43PM
Subject: RE: table summary
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It is a useful for tables to provide some text within the TABLE
element that summarizes the contents of the table. Though it is most
useful with data tables it is also good to use with layout tables.
" The accesibillity of the web is still kind of new to me, but I am
constantly learning! What I am confused about now is the summary
attribute. When I run my site through Bobby-WW, it tells me that I must
add a summary for tables. The only tables on the page in question are
used for layout. I'm working on using CSS for layout but until I can do
that I need to use some tables. I don't understand why Bobby wouldn't
note that as a "user check" because it seems to say I must add a summary
for a layout table. Is this the case or should I just ignore Bobby's
error in this case?
Ton
From: Tony Trott
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 2:26PM
Subject: Re: table summary
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MessageThanks. So is it OK to just put <...summary="Page Layout">?
Tony
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Subject: RE: table summary
It is a useful for tables to provide some text within the TABLE element that summarizes the contents of the table. Though it is most useful with data tables it is also good to use with layout tables.
" The accesibillity of the web is still kind of new to me, but I am constantly learning! What I am confused about now is the summary attribute. When I run my site through Bobby-WW, it tells me that I must add a summary for tables. The only tables on the page in question are used for layout. I'm working on using CSS for layout but until I can do that I need to use some tables. I don't understand why Bobby wouldn't note that as a "user check" because it seems to say I must add a summary for a layout table. Is this the case or should I just ignore Bobby's error
From: Bill Mason
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 3:23PM
Subject: Re: table summary
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At 02:16 PM 08/07/2002, Tony Trott wrote:
>Thanks. So is it OK to just put <...summary="Page Layout">?
That is basically what the W3C does on their home page:
"Layout table: The first cell contains a navigation bar of W3C
technologies, the second contains news, and the third another navigation
bar of W3C pages."
Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
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