Hi Alex, Why are relations sufficient? A relation is a connection to
another accessible but you said you don't want to fabricate another
accessible.
We probably should have had caption and summary return a variant so
either an accessible or a BSTR could be returned. Would that have
solved the problem?
Pete
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On 8/9/2011 8:47 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Hi, Benjamin.
>
> I believe Jamie meant proposed summaryText and captionText when asked
> about accName/accDescription.
>
> More general question can be asked, i.e. why we need to have interface
> to expose caption and summary and it can be worded as "why are
> labelled_by/for and described_by/for relations insufficient".
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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