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Re: Info widgets with role="dialog"

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 21, 2015 9:37AM

The ARIA authoring spec recommends role="document" on static text as
well as tabindex="0" to make sure infomration stays in focus order
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#alertdialog
Actually there is an NVDA bug, which I have to file, .. when the
message area of a dialog has role document, NVDA will disregard the
aria-describebby attribute that points to it .. simply removing
role="document" causes NVDA to automatically read the message again.
Cheers

On 1/20/15, Roger Hudson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks Detlev and Jared for your concise and useful info about this problem
> which I am seeing more and more.
> Roger
>
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