Provide caption or summary for data tables Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Provide a caption element or title attribute or summary attribute for data tables (but not for layout tables.)

Help

Add a caption or summary attribute describing the contents of the table. This is read aloud before the table contents, allowing screen reader users to decide whether to skip the table.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 1.0 (Success Criteria: 5.5 level AAA)

Change history

• 6.46 Sep 2022 Removed - WCAG 1.0 guidelines are obsolete.
• 5.7 Dec 2014 Fixed false positive.
• 5.5 May 2014 Warn about incompatibility between WCAG 1 and HTML 5.
• 4.2 Dec 2010 Modified layout table detection algorithm.
• 3.5 Dec 2009 Improved layout table detection algorithm.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccWcag1-5.5.1