Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Janina Sajka
Hi Pete, All: Janina chiming in here to try and provide overall strategic history. I'll leave the technical details to Rich, Steve, and others. The initial problem is that HTML 5 has obsoleted (deprecated) table summary as we knew it in HTML 4. We tried to get that overturned -- to rinstate summ

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Pete Brunet
Thank you Janina, That was very helpful. On 10/15/13 1:05 PM, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi Pete, All: > > Janina chiming in here to try and provide overall strategic history. > I'll leave the technical details to Rich, Steve, and others. > > The initial problem is that HTML 5 has obsoleted (deprecate

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IAccessibleTable2::caption/summary deprecation notes need correcting

2013-10-15 Thread Pete Brunet
Hi Rich, During another activity I was looking at caption and summary last night and happened to end up on a W3C site that documents how tables should be described: www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions-techniques This shows various techniques: 1) Precede the