Table: Title in lieu of Caption

Chris / Jim,
One option  for users who do not want a visible caption is to describe the purpose of the table in the summary. But the title attribute on the table   also is very handy for this purpose. WinEyes reads the  title in the table tag and it appears as a tooltip. When title is valid for the table as per HTML specs why should techniques advise against its use? JAWS should also expose the title and so should other TTS products.
Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer 
Deque Systems,11180  Sunrise Valley Drive, 
4th Floor, Reston VA 20191
Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 
E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com
Fax: 703-225-0387
* Look up <http://www.deque.com> *