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From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Sep 25, 2012 4:57PM


It appears as if voiceover will not announce a div with role=alert unless
we explicitly set focus on the div. Is this correct?
Jaws announced the alert role irrespective of where the focus is. Is this a
bug in voiceover?

Thanks,
Ramya