On Jul 6, 2009, at 20:50, Joshue O Connor wrote:
Ok, if you look at the following complex table at Gez Lemons site,
Juicy
Studio. [1]
For a suitable @summary overview you could say something like:
<table summary="A complex table of two halves. Firstly, there are 7
columns with the headings Child Investment, Type, Status, Allocation,
Total Cost of Ownership, Return on Investment, Net Present Value, with
their corresponding values in rows beneath them. The table is then
followed by a column called Property that has two sections of
sub-headings of Budgeted, Actual and Forecasted with their
corresponding
running cost values for three weekly periods starting from the 12th of
December 2005 to the 26th">.
[1} http://juicystudio.com/wcag/tables/complexdatatable.html
I observe that the actual summary looks like this:
<table summary="Child investment portfolios with budgeted, actual
and forecast running costs for particular dates">
It's much shorter, and it's caption-like.
I think this anecdotal case study supports the notion that @summary
isn't actually used as prescribed--not even by experts.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
