RE: Issue opened on captions leading to potentially ginormous accessible names

In case it's unclear to anyone, this is a joke... I realize some in other countries may not be familiar with some English slang terms.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 10:25 AM
To: Joanmarie Diggs; W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
Subject: RE: Issue opened on captions leading to potentially ginormous accessible names

If I could ask a favor, please never put the word ginormous in the spec, it will make my brain explode. The same with 'my bad'



-----Original Message-----
From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:40 AM
To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
Subject: FYI: Issue opened on captions leading to potentially ginormous accessible names

Hi all.

While discussing table roles at yesterday's ARIA concall, it was pointed out to me that caption is part of the name calculation for tables.
Because captions can contain descriptions -- as suggested in the HTML5 specification [1] -- tables can wind up with some pretty big accessible names. Aren't names supposed to be short??

I don't know what the right answer is, but I opened a bug for it:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28404


--joanie

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#the-caption-element

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