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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 1:51PM

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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Lynn Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> As a screenreader user, I personally prefer the shortest message
> possible that gives me enough information to know what happened. "Item
> added" and "Item deleted" would work for me.
>

So, if the record count live region was included, as I think it should be
anyway, due to the search field that dynamically updates the list of
records, do you think this would be enough? Or would both the record count
live region and a separate live region for the "Item added/deleted" be best?


>
> Making the live region invisible may cause it not to be read by
> screenreaders on mobile devices.
>

Good to know. Thanks!

Best,
Rob



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