There is no way to trigger the layout table rule to raise anything

Expectation: a layout table with a caption should raise an issue

Actual: no issues raised

Motivation: rules should work as advertised

axe-core version: 3.3.2
axe extension: 4.0.0

Table markup used to try to generate the issue

            <table role="presentation">
                <caption>presentation caption</caption>
                <tr><td>hello</td></tr>
            </table>

I also noticed that there are no integration tests for this rule.

[WilcoFiers]

This is intentional, it was done to close this false positive: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/issues/561

I agree with these guys that this shouldn’t be a WCAG failure. Putting role=“presentation” on a table is a trick people use to force AT to ignore it, even if that table has markup like th / captions / scope=“”.

I think there’s a decent case to be made that this should be failed as part of a best practice. People shouldn’t write tables like that, but if you have a table that you need to fix, this is a valid way of doing it. Failing this under the existing rules would be a false positive.

[straker]

Nope, we deprecated the rule so no testing needed.