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Re: Use of live regions for announcing additions and deleteions

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: May 16, 2015 2:41PM

Hi Rob,

The various screenreaders might treat two alerts firing off at once very differently, so you may want to avoid this approach. Just to be sure the messages are read in the order you want, you could choose not to give the second region a role of "alert" and set its aria-live value to "polite".

KR, Lynn



> On 16 May 2015, at 20:51, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Responses inserted below:
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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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