Accessibility: Table Summary

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Brian Cryer

I'm working on a project using VB.NET where the customer is very fussy about
accessibility. One of the requirements that I'm trying to meet is that
tables should have a summary, for example (and I've taken this from
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_20_providing_a_summary_for_tables.html):

<table border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" summary="Monthly calendar
with links to each day's posts">

The property page for my tables has a summary field, I've put text in and
within visual studio if I look at the html I can see the summary there, but
when I run it in my browser the summary information gets stripped off and
doesn't appear.

Anyone know what I should be doing to get this out?

Any ideas much appreciated.

thanks in advance,

Brian.

www.cryer.co.uk/brian
 
Brian Cryer said:
I'm working on a project using VB.NET where the customer is very fussy
about accessibility. One of the requirements that I'm trying to meet is
that tables should have a summary, for example (and I've taken this from
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_20_providing_a_summary_for_tables.html):

<table border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" summary="Monthly
calendar with links to each day's posts">

The property page for my tables has a summary field, I've put text in and
within visual studio if I look at the html I can see the summary there,
but when I run it in my browser the summary information gets stripped off
and doesn't appear.
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The value of this attribute should not be rendered in a visual way:

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.1>

Maybe you are looking for the 'caption' element.
 
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