Re: summarization information delivery options: attribute or element

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