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table
summaries are greater than 10 printable characters.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'assigned'.
Guideline: 1.3 - Ensure that information, functionality, and structure can be separated from presentation.
Success Criteria:
1. Structures within the content can be programmatically determined . How to ensure that structures and relationships in content can be programmatically determined . (Informative) The concepts of "reliable" and "standard" need to be incorporated into the definition of "programmatically determined."
Level 1
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 1'.
The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:
The following tests must be run before running this test. If any of the prerequisite tests fail then this test is invalid and should not be run.
summary
attribute of table
element and determine its length.table
summaries are greater than 10 printable characters.summary
attribute value of the table
element so it describes the purpose and structure of the table.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
table
with short summary
(less than 10 characters).)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ATRC Testfile - Check #113-1 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" summary="coffee">
<tr><th>name</th><th>number of cups</th><th>type</th><th>with sugar</th></tr>
<tr><td>Adams, Willie</td><td>2</td><td>regular</td><td>sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bacon, Lise</td><td>4</td><td>regular</td><td>no sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chaput, Maria</td><td>1</td><td>decaf</td><td>sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Di Nino, Consiglio</td><td>0</td><td>not applicable</td><td>not applicable</td></tr>
<tr><td>Eggleton, Art</td><td>6</td><td>regular</td><td>no sugar</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
table
with valid summary
(greater than 10 characters).)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ATRC Testfile - Check #113-2 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" summary="This table shows the number of cups of coffee consumed by each senator, the type of coffee (decaf or regular), and whether taken with sugar.">
<tr><th>name</th><th>number of cups</th><th>type</th><th>with sugar</th></tr>
<tr><td>Adams, Willie</td><td>2</td><td>regular</td><td>sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bacon, Lise</td><td>4</td><td>regular</td><td>no sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chaput, Maria</td><td>1</td><td>decaf</td><td>sugar</td></tr>
<tr><td>Di Nino, Consiglio</td><td>0</td><td>not applicable</td><td>not applicable</td></tr>
<tr><td>Eggleton, Art</td><td>6</td><td>regular</td><td>no sugar</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>