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From: Christine Hogenkamp
Date: Oct 25, 2024 12:54PM

I'm using a 2024 version of Acrobat and Table Summaries is still part of
the Accessibility Check results.

I myself have wondered about table summaries before, especially wondered
what exactly are table summaries meant to say, is it just meant to be a
header title for the data ie "Results from 2023" that represents the table
contents or is it meant to an actual sentence "Results from 2023 that
include Company Name, Costs and Items" etc in a more descriptive way.

Like Claire, we tend to add those table summaries on with the assumption
that the client could use the checker themselves and see the flagged error,
so we just use the "header title" method in the absence of us finding any
particular authoritative guidance on the wording, just to keep things
simple.

I have debated whether we should just not bother and leave them blank (and
do as Steve says, just explain that it's a false positive and can be
ignored) as a better user experience, so I welcome anyone who uses a screen
reader etc to say if they'd prefer to have that table summary for each data
table or is it just a negative experience that you'd rather not hear
anything. OR maybe it makes no difference either way! :)

*x*
*Christine Hogenkamp (She, Her)*
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Lead
Context Creative – a Mod Op company
416.972.1439 | contextcreative.com


On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:21:43 -0300
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Document table summaries
> I have not seen the table summary come up in years (I remediate many tables
> and none has had a summary). Are you using an older version of Acrobat Pro?
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 9:53 AM Claire Forbes < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Okay, thank you.
> > I tend to include the results I get from Adobe Acrobat's Accessibility
> > Checker because clients often utilize it and reference it when
> submitting a
> > PDF for Section 508 review.
> >