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SUMMARY attribute for TABLE elements

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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 2.3 Render conditional content (Priority 1 )
Provision 1 : Allow configuration to provide access to each piece of unrendered conditional content "C".
Provision 2 : When a specification does not explain how to provide access to this content, do so as follows: If C is a summary, title, alternative, description, or expansion of another piece of content D, provide access through at least one of the following mechanisms: (1a) render C in place of D; (2a) render C in addition to D; (3a) provide access to C by allowing the user to query D. In this case, the user agent must also alert the user, on a per-element basis, to the existence of C (so that the user knows to query D); and (4a) allow the user to follow a link to C from the context of D. Otherwise, provide access to C through at least one of the following mechanisms: (1b) render a placeholder for C, and allow the user to view the original author-supplied content associated with each placeholder; (2b) provide access to C by query (e.g., allow the user to query an element for its attributes). In this case, the user agent must also alert the user, on a per-element basis, to the existence of C; and (3b) allow the user to follow a link in context to C.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. The user agent should display the conditional content of the table summary attribute.

Run test

Test Cell 1.1Test Cell 1.2
Test Cell 2.1Test Cell 2.2

Expected results

  1. The contents of the table summary attribute is available to the user agent.

Source code

<table summary="This table tests the ability of user agents to display table summary content" border="1">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Test Cell 1.1</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Test Cell 1.2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Test Cell 2.1</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Test Cell 2.2</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

References

  1. HTML 4.01 specification for TABLE
  2. HTML 4.01 specification for SUMMARY

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

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Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:29 $ by $Author: jongund $

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