Accessibility: Best Practice – Table With Identical Summary & Caption Text

Ensure the caption and summary table attributes are not identical.

Screen readers have some features to manage table navigation, but tables must be marked up accurately for these features to work correctly.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Table With Identical Summary & Caption Text’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure the <caption> element does not contain the same text as the summary attribute.