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From: Michael Vogt
Date: Jul 24, 2013 3:04AM

Hello Paul.

> 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.
>
Yes, I know that this fact is a general problem throughout the
framework. JAWS is our first target, and it seems it can handle this
in general quite good.

Any feedback on using role status for weaker, more informal notifications?


Thanks,
Michael