- From: Shelley Powers <shelleypowers@burningbird.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:04:11 -0600
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: public-html-a11y@w3.org
>> Now, you mention @summary is not accessible for AT software. How so? >> As far as I know of, summary does work with AT software. In fact, as >> far as I know of, that's never been an issue with @summary. >> > > I noted in the vote about <details>, that someone said the exact same > thing - I think it was Steve who told you so on Twitter . > > I have told that Apple's VoiceOver for Mac OS X does not support > @summary. At least not up until Mac OS X 10.5. I have not tested Mac OS > X 10.6, so I cannot tell. > > If @summary isn't supported on Mac OS X 10.6 (does anyone know?), then > this pretty much means that not a single AT tool for Mac OS X supports > @summary. > > I would suggest, then, filing a bug with Apple. The HTML4 specification does unequivocally state that non-visual UAs render this attribute. I don't think we need to change elements and attributes because one vendor does an incomplete job. Shelley
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