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

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From: Angela French
Date: Feb 8, 2013 12:05PM

Oops. I replied in the wrong email. Apologies

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>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 11:03 AM
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>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Fwd: Table captions using span and css class wb-
>invisible from the template
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>Must have been a gremlin in the server that moment.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Detlev Fischer
>>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 11:04 AM
>>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>>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
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>>> 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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