On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:42 AM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are accName/accDescription insufficient?
The content model of HTML <caption> is "flow" (with no descendant table elements): http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#the-caption-element That means it a wide variety of structured markup, including headings, changes of language marked up with @lang, and links and form controls. A practical use of this complex content model might be to include controls for modifying the display of the table or linking to sources for the table's data. accName is a string, so any complex content is flattened into text: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/accessibility.iaccessible.accname.aspx By contrast, the caption property returns an IAccessible or IAccessible2 object that could have children represents the structure of the caption. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
