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Kevin Potts

"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites"

These are not necessary for smaller tables like the preceding one, but can prove
valuable when constructing more complex arrays of data, like those commonly found in
annual reports.
Caption and summarize data. Like forms, tables have a proprietary tag for titling the information.
In forms, it??™s ; in tables, it??™s called a caption, and it??™s marked up with the
very unambiguous tag. It sits right inside the opening tag, like so:


... table data ...
Sales Growth Year Over Year

The summary attribute is the other important device in our toolbox for providing contextual
information about a table. This sits inside the tag, and is intended to provide
a short description of the data the table contains. Like the title attribute of a link, this
text is not displayed:

... table data ...

Graphics and multimedia
Providing alternative text equivalents may be the single most valuable initiative for increasing
a website??™s accessibility. Text is the lowest-common-denominator format. It can be
read by any device rendering the Web, and thus provides a consistent last line of defense
for multimedia elements that either don??™t get through a user agent or cannot be understood
by the user.


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