- From: Shelley Powers <shelleypowers@burningbird.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:59:42 -0600
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, 'Joshue O Connor' <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, 'Laura Carlson' <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, 'Gez Lemon' <g.lemon@webprofession.com>, "'Gregory J. Rosmaita'" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Though technically not a _new_ element [1], using >> two captions on a table is not, I believe, an enhancement that will >> degrade gracefully with older user agents. >> >> Firefox doesn't print out the second caption, as Leif states in his >> change proposal, but that's not a behavior we can count on. >> > > Right. We need support in more than one UA. > > Unfortunately, the second caption is not backwards compatible. It breaks with existing and older browsers. >> Opera >> does print out the second caption. Safari and Chrome do not. IE does. >> NVDA says one caption when the page is loaded in Firefox. NVDA says >> both captions, when the page is loaded in IE. >> >> The results we will get for a second caption are unreliable. >> > > My CP specifically says that we must investigate what the best CSS is. > It sounds from your description like NVDA behaves very much like > VoiceOver does: It only reads that what is somehow visible. VoiceOver > e.g. doesn't read the content of @summary. Thus it reads the second > caption, but only when it is somehow visible. > > So, can you also tell us how NVDA behaves with regard to @summary? > It worked on mouse over. It might work in other ways, but that was the only one I tried. I'm still pretty new to NVDA. Shelley
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