Re: Summary advice for table
Charlie Reitzel <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:07:22 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel |
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+1
At 12:05 PM 2/2/2006 +0100, Marc Gueury wrote:
>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">
>hello
>
>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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