- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:44:32 +0200
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi Joshue, As mentioned off this list, I created a test page back in June, in order to check AT support for table@summary versus AT support for table@aria-label/-labelledby/-describedby http://malform.no/testing/html5/table+aria.html My findings were that support for @aria-label/-labelledby/-describedby were only universially implemented for the IMG element - for the <table> elemetn and most other non-IMG elements, the support was very bad if present at all. For @summary, in contrast, the support were much, much better. In fact, accordings from my notes from 29th of June, NVDA+Firefox where the only AT/UA combination which announced ARIA labels and descriptions for non-IMG elements. Whereas the great majority of AT combinations did announce @summary. Thus, at the current stage, removing support for @summary from HTML5 means that - for the broad range of ATs - there is nothing that can replace it (that is: apart from heuristical methods). I would suggest that you add these findings to your CP. (E.g. inside the paragraphs labelled 'Screen reader test details'.) Feel free to link to the test page, to this letter and to add suitable text. -- Leif Halvard Silli
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