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Re: Use of live regions for announcing additions anddeleteions

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 16, 2015 10:18PM

Very true, multiple firings of the Alert role will cause anything announced before it to be interrupted, so alerts in general should only be to convey very important information at one time.

Though less severe as Alert, the use of aria-live="assertive" will sometimes interrupt speech on some devices too, so this is important to keep in mind as well.

If you need to have multiple contiguous messages announced in succession, aria-live="polite" should be used.