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From: Devarshi Pant
Date: Jul 9, 2014 9:44AM

It's captions in html 5, but summary can be helpful too in certain
situations.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H39.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H73.html
Now I am confused. When in html are we supposed to use caption or summary?
I am thinking we are supposed to use caption. Is this correct?

Susie