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From: Moore,Michael (DARS)
Date: Apr 16, 2015 7:55AM

What if you provide the option to turn the stream on and off. Some people might be distracted by the information stream and benefit from turning it off. With it on, aria-polite would probably be fine.

Mike Moore
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan C Cohn
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ARIA Live and values that updates very quickly

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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Jonathan