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Re: ARIA Examples Specific to Alert

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From: November Samnee
Date: May 12, 2010 10:00AM

I don't readily have a link available for which screenreaders recognize
which ARIA roles, but The Paciello Group's blog has charts out there for
which roles are recognized by different browsers (
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=474 is the link for Windows browsers,
to start).

November

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, David Farough
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
>