- From: Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:08:05 -0700
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 2009-06-30 Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-06-30 David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > > I don't think I have actually seen an answer to this question: do > > accessibility UAs, and users needing accessible access, look for the > > summary attribute, or have these users and/or their UAs given up > > looking? > > the most poular screen reader JAWS announces the summary on data > tables by default, if it is used on a layout table it is generally not > announced as JAWS filters out layout tables (as the table element use > for layout has been widely abused). > > This information and much more about the summary issue has been > collected on the html esw wiki > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SummaryForTABLE Additional info here: <http://www.malform.no/html5/caption+summary> Regards, -Steve -- Steve Axthelm steveax@pobox.com
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