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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 24, 2016 3:15PM

I have implemented a dynamic password strength indicator using live
regions. It worked farily well, but needed an awful lot of fine-tuning
for screen reader verbosity.
The idea is to turn the whole strength indicator element into a live
region (putting aria-live="polite").
As images change from "incomplete" to "complete" you update their alt
text o reflect that, and that gets announced by screen readers (most
of them, Jaws does not consider change of alt text content update in a
live region, or just doesn't work).
It is a cool concept, but it did not work consistently across enough
screen reders and browsers to be more than a show piece.



On 8/24/16, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Brian,
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> I would prefer a link before the text box in the DOM that states, "Read our
> password policy first."
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> When I press that link, the cursor gets put in the container at the top of
> the message. I can down-arrow through it and read it. As soon as I press the
> Close button, I am returned to the link or the password field.
>
> Please, do not hook the description to aria-describedby when I land on that
> first text box. You'd tick me off big time.
>
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