- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:07:15 +0100
- To: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie
- CC: public-html@w3.org
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? -- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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