Re: More on <CAPTION> element etc

Joshue O Connor wrote:
> Ben Boyle wrote:
>>> But if use something outside the <table>, something other than
>>> table@summary, then that information isn't explicitly associated with
>>> the table (and it becomes more difficult for AT to make that
>>> association). 
> 
> The CAPTION element is supposed to do this but I have found its
> application to be hit and miss, for example the CAPTION element may be
> at the end of the table so the user may have already explored the table
> before they get to the caption. 

Seriously, non-visual UAs won't read out the caption before the table body, 
regardless of source order? I would expect <caption> to be the _first_ thing 
they would look at for a description of the table, irrespective of where it 
appears. Is there some reason this isn't done?

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Received on Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:07:25 UTC