Thanks Patrick So many tables I've seen have been marked up that way, I just assumed it to be correct.
Maybe that's a good blog tutorial. Cheers Jeff > From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:17:10 +0000 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WSG] <Acronym> within <th> & Screen Readers > > Jeff Lowder - Accessibility 1st wrote: >> Sorry guys, it really should be marked up as follows: >> <th abbr="Cascading Style Sheet" scope="col">CSS</th> >> You could even put aq title attribute in there as well if you like. > > Not to be picky, but that's wrong. It's the opposite of what's defined > in the spec > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#adef-abbr > > "abbr = text [CS] > This attribute should be used to provide an abbreviated form of the > cell's content, and may be rendered by user agents when appropriate in > place of the cell's content. Abbreviated names should be short since > user agents may render them repeatedly. For instance, speech > synthesizers may render the abbreviated headers relating to a particular > cell before rendering that cell's content." > > So, correct use of the abbr attribute would be > <th abbr="CSS" scope="col">Cascading Style Sheet</th> > > which is not what you're after in this case. I'd say use the abbr or > acronym (not going to start opening that can of worms again here) > element inside the TH, like you originally envisaged. > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > _____________________________________________________ > re�dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively > [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] > www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk > http://redux.deviantart.com > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
