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SUMMARY attribute for TABLE element

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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 10.1 Associate table cells and headers (Priority 1 )
Provision 1 : For graphical user agents that render tables, for each table cell, allow the user to view associated header information.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. Determine whether or not the user agent has made table summary content available.

Run test

Table header 1 Table header 2 Table header 3 Table header 4
Cell 1.1 Cell 1.2 Cell 1.3 Cell 1.4
Cell 2.1 Cell 2.2 Cell 2.3 Cell 2.4
Cell 3.1 Cell 3.2 Cell 3.3 Cell 3.4
Cell 4.1 Cell 4.2 Cell 4.3 Cell 4.4

Expected results

  1. The table summary content--"Test table for table summary content"--should be available to the user.

Source code

<table border="1" cellpadding="5" summary="Test table for table summary content">
  <tr>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Table header 1</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Table header 2</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Table header 3</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Table header 4</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 1.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 2.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 3.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.1</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.2</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.3</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cell 4.4</td>
  </tr>
</table>

References

  1. 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 23:46:50 $ by $Author: jongund $

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