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Tables should not have the same summary and caption

table-duplicate-name

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

This is advice, not conformance

No WCAG success criterion requires this check, so failing it does not fail an audit. It still catches real problems, which is why we surface it — separately, so your compliance score stays honest.

How it is reported

A11ySignal reports this at minor impact. Every failing element comes with its CSS selector and the markup that failed, so you can go straight to the line rather than hunting for it. Deque publishes the engine-level detail:

https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.13/table-duplicate-name ↗

Check implemented by axe-core 4.13.0, © Deque Systems, MPL-2.0.