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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Mar 26, 2012 9:34AM

I find when I navigate to a tab, the items can take long enough to load
that they aren't ready as you read through the page, particularly as the
information is immediately below the tab link.

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From: "Tony Olivero" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 4:14 PM

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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] aria-live


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