Summary advice for table

Marc Gueury <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:05:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi all,

I know the question came already to the mailing list. But when using 
tidy, tidy reports a warning when the summary attribute is missing from 
a table tag.
I prefered to write a mail before logging a bug to be able to discuss it.

ex:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      table test
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>

          hello
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

Report this warning:
 > line 9 column 5 - Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute

The summary attr check has a good reason to be there for aural browsers. 
But I would prefer to see this warning only when accessibility level > 0.
The reason I am asking  is that nearly nobody has a summary attr in his 
tables. And most people do not want to see this warning when checking 
their pages if they are not interested in accessibility.

So, currently, I have a bad work-around in my in the Firefox extension 
that I would like to remove :-) I run always tidy with an accessibility 
level 1. Then skip the display of the accessibility message if the user 
had not asked them...

* The result is that the summary table message are not shown
* But it has a nasty side effect, it is that then Tidy do not report the 
missing alt tags for the images. It is annoying since alt is a mandatory 
attribute. This is why I would like to change this summary code:

    /* a missing summary attribute is bad accessibility, no matter
       what HTML version is involved; a document wihtout is valid */
    if (cfg(doc, TidyAccessibilityCheckLevel) == 0)
    {
        if (!HasSummary)
        {
            doc->badAccess |= MISSING_SUMMARY;
            ReportMissingAttr( doc, node, "summary");
        }
    }

I would like is to change it to
 > if (cfg(doc, TidyAccessibilityCheckLevel) > 0)

May I log a bug ?

Thanks by advance,

Marc



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