But actually you're question is similar to why do we need IATable2 caption and summary properties if they can be reached from label/description relations.
There's gap in summary/caption support in IA2 spec or IA2 implementation, I'd like to get it addressed by this or that way. Alex. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Jamie. It appears AT want to get summary and caption (not a name > or description since they can be different). > > Brett, do you have scenarios to share? > > Thank you. > Alex. > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Why are accName/accDescription insufficient? >> >> Thanks, >> Jamie >> >> On 9/08/2011 1:36 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> IATable2 provides caption and summary properties that return >>> accessible objects. HTML table summary is provided by @summary >>> attribute so there's no accessible object that's created from DOM >>> element. This can be workarounded by artificial accessible object >>> creation that is attached or not attached to the tree but this >>> complicates implementation and I would try to avoid it. Can we extend >>> the IAccessibleTable2 by summaryText and captionText attributes or >>> introduce summary and caption object attributes on table accessible if >>> interface change is not desired for this? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> Alexander. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> >> -- >> James Teh >> Vice President, Developer >> NV Access Inc, ABN 61773362390 >> Email: [email protected] >> Web site: http://www.nvaccess.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> > _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
