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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Oct 11, 2017 1:53PM

Why are you including aria-live and aria-atomic in combination with role=alert? The alert role includes all supporting attributes automatically and combining it with others may conflict with the role.

I just tested this using NVDA in Firefox on Win7 with role=alert as documented here, and it works as expected.
http://whatsock.com/training/#hd26
The test page referenced in this section includes a Test button for validating this functionality.

Also, live regions should not be nested. The JS method being used to add content to the container may also yield differing results as well.

Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
Level Access, Inc.
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