295715 - HTML table should use summary attribute for accessible name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

Given the following table:
<table summary="This is my table about bees" ... > .. </table>

We should use the summary attribute for the accessible name of the ROLE_TABLE
object.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Simple patch

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 184685 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

Note: it's not clear to me whether you should prefer the caption or the
summary.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 184685 [details] [diff] [review] [edit])
> Note: it's not clear to me whether you should prefer the caption or the
> summary.

I decided to go with preferring caption, because it seemed to be an arbitrary
decision. It's richer, so once we get accessible relations into the tree I can
point to it with the labelledby relation, which will allow AT's to get at the
formatting of the caption.

Comment 4

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Comment on attachment 184685 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

a=shaver

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Checking in src/base/nsAccessibilityAtomList.h;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/base/nsAccessibilityAtomList.h,v  <-- 
nsAccessibilityAtomList.h
new revision: 1.21; previous revision: 1.20
done
Checking in src/html/nsHTMLTableAccessible.cpp;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/html/nsHTMLTableAccessible.cpp,v  <-- 
nsHTMLTableAccessible.cpp
new revision: 1.27; previous revision: 1.26
done

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381