Hi Rich, During another activity I was looking at caption and summary last night and happened to end up on a W3C site that documents how tables should be described: www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions-techniques
This shows various techniques: 1) Precede the table with a paragraph and use aria-describedby referencing that paragraph 2) Use the caption tag 3) Use the details tag in a caption tag (and the example shows a summary tag under the details tag) 4/5) Embed the table in a figure tag which has a figcaption tag The third case is the only one showing a summary tag, but it's a child of the caption tag. I found an example here: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/mag201212HTML5/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5925 Looking at the UIA properties of a page with that markup, i.e. a hierarchy of caption, details, summary, using Inspect with both IE and FF I saw the full caption text including the summary in the accName / UIA Name. From the perspective of caption that makes sense but having summary as a substring of caption doesn't. Is this a proper use of the summary tag? Or is aria-describedby/labeledby the proper technique? Is there a better document that I should be looking at? Pete On 10/12/13 5:00 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > Thanks Pete. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 12, 2013, at 12:43 AM, "Pete Brunet" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> The IAccessibleTable2 spec has an error. The deprecation note on the >> caption method indicates that a describedBy relation should be used >> and the deprecation note on the summary method indicates that a >> labeledBy relation should be used instead. This is backwards and I >> will submit a replacement soon. >> >> Pete >> -- >> *Pete Brunet* >> >> a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development >> (512) 467-4706 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell) >> Skype: pete.brunet >> IM: ptbrunet (AOL, Google), [email protected] (MSN) >> http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ >> Ionosphere: WS4G >> _______________________________________________ >> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 -- *Pete Brunet* a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development (512) 467-4706 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell) Skype: pete.brunet IM: ptbrunet (AOL, Google), [email protected] (MSN) http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ Ionosphere: WS4G
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