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Re: ARIA Examples Specific to Alert

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From: David Farough
Date: May 12, 2010 9:39AM

IE7 does not support ARIA for the most part. IE8 and Firefox 3.6 are
the best browsers for aria support. Try using Firefox with NVDA. Jaws
10 does not fully support aria. Jaws 11 will work much better.

I am not aware of a list of aria features and the degree to which they
are supported by browsers and screen readers.

NVDA is probably the best screenreader to use as far as ARIA support is
concerned. JAWS 11 most recent update is also good. I don't know where
system access and Window Eyes are in terms of their support for ARIA.
>>> Seth Kane < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 05:48 pm Tuesday, May 11, 2010
>>>
Does anyone have any examples of ARIA (role=alert) that actually work?
I have been playing around with single page experiences and instead of
using a JavaScript dialog I want to utilize an inserted <div> tag with
error messages. I have gone ahead and tried using the role="alert" with
focus and tabindex however none of my tests work in IE7 & Jaws 10 or IE7
& NVDA.

I even tried the examples located at:
http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/alertdialog/alertdialog1.php and
none of those seem to work very well.

Any insight would be great.


- Seth