Web Design

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CHAPTER

Making Sites Accessible 10

TIPS

Why can I not see my table’s summary?

The summary is one of the very few things you add

to your code for accessibility that exists purely for

disabled users, specifically the visually impaired.

Users with a screen reader hear the summary, but it

does not appear anywhere on the page.

Can I change the appearance of the caption?

Yes, with CSS. It is important to make sure that your

page without CSS makes logical sense. Once

it does, you are free to style it to appear however

you want.

● When viewed in a Web

browser, the table’s headers

appear, along with the

caption. The summary does

not appear.

3 Within the opening

tag, type
summary=”?”, replacing?
with a summary of the table’s
structure and contents.

3