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From: J Vine
Date: Mar 2, 2016 12:32PM

Thad,

Thank you - this does help, as I wasn't sure how to even think about the problem.

Jennifer


> On Mar 1, 2016, at 7:22 PM, Thad C < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> I have typically shied away from responding for fear of giving bad advice
> but here is my take on what I am seeing based on a test.
>
> It looks like when the initial notification of the "Additional Results"
> dialog displays, the DOM has already rendered. I would say as long as you
> are indicating to the user that there is a waiting period by identifying
> the presence and updates made by the progress bar to AT and then reading
> the dialog pop-up when it appears, that if you make all the elements in the
> DOM accessible there is no issue because it looks like the content has
> stopped updating at that point and is static. The user then has the option
> to "Add Results". There is a spinner icon whose progress should be
> announced to AT. It again appears that there is a specific time that the
> DOM updates and a time that it stops updating and becomes static. I didn't
> see in my test any live areas or AJAX updates after content updates were
> initiated by the user.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:48 PM, J Vine < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We are looking at vendor services for searching articles in an academic
>> library. One of the options is a federated search, which means that the
>> service goes out and searches several sources at once, and fills in the
>> results as the sources respond.
>>
>> There are some examples here:
>> http://www.deepwebtech.com/...product-trial/try-it-now/ When you do a
>> search, the results page shows articles from the first few sources, then
>> adds tabs and updates counts as sources respond, and eventually pops up a
>> dialog giving the total number found, with the option to refresh the result
>> list to show all articles.
>>
>> There are all kinds of issues with the results pages - document structure,
>> alt text, form labels, mostly easy to fix. What I'm wondering about is how
>> challenging it would be to make the dynamic updating in multiple locations
>> really usable for a screen reader.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a site that does something like this effectively? (I
>> mean the dynamic updating, in any context.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jennifer Vine
>> UX Designer
>> Digital Library Systems & Services
>> Stanford University Libraries
>> >> >> >> >>
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