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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Feb 11, 2012 5:54AM

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I think until you can tie a visual element (thinking a heading
>> here) to a table a summary is needed.
>
> The <caption> element (for text inside the table) or the attributes
> @aria-labelledby and @aria-describedby (for text outside the table)
> can do that.

There should also really be implicit associations between headings and
<figcaption> elements preceding the table in the absence of more
explicit markup, but I don't think that's been specified
unfortunately.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis