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Re: aria-live

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From: Tony Olivero
Date: Mar 26, 2012 9:14AM


Dawn,

What type of content are you loading? If you are simply updating the page
and the user will find the changed content using normal navigation ARIA is
not necessary. Live regions make sense when the content is constantly
changing and a user needs to be alerted to the update. For example, a chat
client where the other participant sends a message.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Budge [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:07
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: [WebAIM] aria-live



Hi,


I have a page that uses tabs. On each tab there are several areas that
load in content via AJAX. If I put aria-live as polite on the container of
these, JAWS just gets overwhelmed as you can imagine and starts re-reading
the content inside the tab from the start several times over. Has anyone
had a similar problem before? Do I need to use aria-busy until each one has
finished? I have a feeling I'm putting the aria-live attribute too far up
the chain.


Thanks,

Dawn