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From: Michael Vogt
Date: Jul 23, 2013 3:12AM

Hello.

I am working on adding accessibility features to the framework of the
company I am working for. This framework offers notifications in
different levels. My understanding is, that the role alert can be used
for them. Is this correct?

But now, we have different levels of notifications, strong warnings to
just for info. Now my feeling is, that for the info notifications, the
role alert is too strong, so I thought I can use the role status
instead. From the spec I understand that alert and status have about
the same characteristics (both live areas). But when I open a
notification with role status, it is not announced with Firefox using
JAWS 14 or NVDA, but with IE10.

Now, is my usage of role status wrong, or should it work?

The sample application can be found here:
http://michaelvogt.jelastic.servint.net/notification/


Thanks,
Michael