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Re: Fwd: Table captions using span and css classwb-invisible from the template

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From: Angela French
Date: Feb 8, 2013 12:02PM

Must have been a gremlin in the server that moment.

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>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Fwd: Table captions using span and css class wb-
>invisible from the template
>
>If the aim is to hide the caption for sighted users, you might consider using the
>table summary attribute instead: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-
>TECHS/H73.html
>Not sure how widely supported summary is, however - the WCAG Technique
>at least does not mention limited support.
>Cheers, Detlev
>
>On 8 Feb 2013, at 19:21, David Farough wrote:
>
>> Could anyone please provide answers to the following question?
>>
>> David Farough
>> Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
>> Information Technology Services Directorate / Direction des services
>> d'information technologiques Public Service Commission / Commission de
>> la fonction publique Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779
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>>>>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 08:23 AM Friday, February 08, 2013
>>>>>
>> I am hoping you folks might be able to offer some guidance on this
>> issue. Is there a reason that a table caption would not be read if it
>> is within the span class? See the code below for an example. Currently
>> a saved local versions using this example with the css style
>> wb-invisible (which uses overflow:hidden in place of display:none)
>> works, but live or staging versions navigate to the span but do not read the
>content.
>>
>> The table caption is encoded like this:
>>
>> <table>
>> <caption>
>> <span class="wb-invisible">Monthly gross domestic product by
>> industry at basic prices in chained (2002) dollars &#8211; Seasonally
>> adjusted</span>
>> </caption>
>>
>> CSS:
>>
>> .wb-invisible, {
>> clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
>> height: 1px !important;
>> margin: 0 !important;
>> overflow: hidden !important;
>> position: absolute;
>> width: 1px !important;
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Juli Rowsell
>> Web Accessibility Officer
>> Centre of Expertise on Accessibility
>> Statistics Canada
>> 100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Government of Canada
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>> Telephone 613-951-9831
>>
>> Agente d'accessibilité au web
>> Centre d'expertise en accessibilité
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