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Re: Use of live regions for announcing additions and deleteions

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: May 16, 2015 1:44PM

The alert role is a type of live region, and I wasn't sure whether this was
appropriate or not. Alert suggested to my mind something vital and
unexpected, like a warning. The use cases I gave may or may not fit the
bill. I think they deserve to be assertive, so it may well be that alert
is best. It is an interesting question though: what deserves to be an
alert versus simply an unspecified live region. Do all assertive live
regions deserve to be alerts?

Best,
Rob

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Don Mauck < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yes, that would be better than an ARIA live, alert would indeed handle
> this well.
>