caption tag summarizes the table's contents (this helps the visually impaired)
<?xml version = "1.0"?> <!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"> <head> <title>A simple XHTML table</title> </head> <body> <table border = "1" width = "40%" summary = "summary"> <caption><strong>Price of Fruit</strong></caption> <tbody> <tr> <td>Apple</td> <td>$0.25</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Orange</td> <td>$0.50</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Banana</td> <td>$1.00</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pineapple</td> <td>$2.00</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>