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Re: ARIA Live and values that updates very quickly

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From: Jonathan C Cohn
Date: Apr 16, 2015 6:07AM

Could you set up a live region with configurations like provide updates every 10 minutes or when the value has changed by more than X since the last update?

This is they type of information I would be looking for. I expect there is the ability for the tool to also chart this information. Have you considered how to make this accessible too?


> On Apr 16, 2015, at 05:22, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> A client has a page that presents Buy and Sell values for certain currency
> or investment transactions. Not surprisingly these values are dynamic and
> so an ARIA live region would seem to be the obvious choice.
>
> However, I'm told that the values can be updated up to 5 times per second.
>
> Even if we used aria-live="polite" I still think there would be a lot of
> verbiage. The last thing we'd want to create is an endless commentary since
> there are other things on the page a site visitor might wish to interact
> with and read.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions as to how we could address this? Are there
> ways of dynamically switching on and off an aria-live region - with
> javascript say? Does that work with screen readers?
>
> Once again, thanks in advance.
>
> Graham Armfield
>
>
>
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> > > > Best wishes,

Jonathan