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From: Elle
Date: Nov 10, 2010 5:09AM

Hi, all!

Longtime lurker, first time poster. I am working as technical support on a
very large e-Commerce ASP.NET website, and we are redesigning a significant
area of the site, starting today. I was going into our development with the
assumption that I should be instructing our developers to use the focus path
when needed to direct the flow for a multiple step process. As there is
really only one way to get from start to finish on this process, and
source/tab order will only manage some of that, it still makes sense to me.
However, I have been reading the recent posts about the value of ARIA in
defining regions that change dynamically on the page. This isn't a shopping
cart page, but there might be a good reason to use ARIA for some or all of
this process for a user. My questions are as follows:


1. What's the best way to determine whether to change the focus or to use
ARIA-Live assertive for something?
2. Is it possible to use both without conflict?
3. How troublesome would it be to incorporate ARIA attributes into custom
.NET user controls?
4. What's the best way to encourage a large corporation to use ARIA,
given the lack of global adoption so far?


Thanks very much, all!

~Elle
@Nethermind