Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Pete Brunet
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

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Pete Brunet
Thank you Janina, That was very helpful. On 10/15/13 1:05 PM, Janina Sajka wrote: Hi Pete, All: Janina chiming in here to try and provide overall strategic history. I'll leave the technical details to Rich, Steve, and others. The initial problem is that HTML 5 has obsoleted (deprecated)

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Janina Sajka
Hi Pete, All: Janina chiming in here to try and provide overall strategic history. I'll leave the technical details to Rich, Steve, and others. The initial problem is that HTML 5 has obsoleted (deprecated) table summary as we knew it in HTML 4. We tried to get that overturned -- to rinstate

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-12 Thread Richard Schwerdtfeger
Thanks Pete. Sent from my iPad On Oct 12, 2013, at 12:43 AM, Pete Brunet p...@a11ysoft.com 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

[Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-11 Thread Pete Brunet
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