Re: FYI: Issue opened on captions leading to potentially ginormous accessible names

I think the author has to make a trick by aria-label and aria-labelledby in
case of captions containing descriptions.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>