Table accessibility, summary and HTML5

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@schneider-electric.com>]

Hi Jirka, et al,

I'm sure you've seen the latest draft of the DocBook Publishers spec, so I am not including it here.

The DITA TC raised a concern about the table summary, since caption is used for the title on output to HTML. Since HTML5 has deprecated the use of the @summary on table, we need to find a better option.

I did find this:

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions-techniques

which suggests using <table><caption><details><summary/>...

If we did that, it would mean adding a details and summary element to CALS? I'm not sure that's a good way to go. We could just add an @summary, and then rely on the output processors/transforms to take the @summary and populate it appropriately? 

Thoughts?

Thanks and best regards,

--Scott
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