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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Jul 23, 2013 8:15AM

It looks like the demo is not working in VoiceOver because VO needs the live region container with a role already present in the DOM before injecting the error message.

http://pauljadam.com/demos/aria-alert-validation.html
http://pauljadam.com/moderna11y/#live-regions

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Michael Vogt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > >