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Re: Question on a caption for Accessible Tables with Navigation

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From: Mike Barlow
Date: Sep 15, 2019 7:03AM

@mhysnm1964 - The summary <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H73.html> is
deprecated in HTML5 (though there is a new summary tag as a component of
the new details tag
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-author-20110809/the-details-element.html>)
so in the long run it doesn't matter (which is why I was thinking of using
an aria-describedby)


*Mike Barlow*
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Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

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On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 2:12 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> All,
>
> In relation to Captions and summaries. What should be the correct behaviour
> for a screen reader. As Jaws and NVDA handle the caption differently. I
> cannot recall how they handle summaries.
>
> Jaws does not permit you to start to navigate the table until you are on
> the
> first cell. NVDA appears to permit this when you are in the caption. Have
> not tested this with Voiceover.
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