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Re: role="alert" not being read by NVDA

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From: Angela French
Date: May 16, 2013 3:28PM

What does #4 "document ready" mean?

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>Angela,
>
>getting aria-live to work correctly in a cross-browser and cross AT and cross-
>platform way is quite complicated.
>
>There are a few of rules you must adhere to
>
>1) Make sure the elements withe the role(s) are not display:none and not
>visibility:hidden, they can be off screen
>2) Make sure you have a role (log, alert) as well as aria-live (polite,
>assertive) (rude does not exist)
>3) ensure you have the aria-atomic attribute set appropriately
>4) Make sure that all elements that have aria-live applied are inserted at or very
>near document ready
>
>The ARIA spec states that some of the above is optional, but really if you want it
>to work everywhere, you have to adhere to the above.
>
>As an fyi - I would not suggest the use of aria-live for individual form field error
>messages, in particular if there might be multiple simultaneous errors.
>Sometime AT will just swallow the messages. I would suggest another technique
>such as aria-describedby and focus management, or additional label text and
>focus management. You can use aria-live for automatically announcing the
>summary of the errors if you have one.
>
>If you're still having issues, email me off list and I will help if I can.
>
>--Dylan
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