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Re: forms and multiple aria-live regions

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From: glen walker
Date: May 26, 2018 8:22AM

All testing I've done on current browser/AT combinations have not had any
problems with aria-live on the child so perhaps this has gotten better, but
that was with text changes, not with hiding/unhiding child elements.
That's why I qualified my previous comment.

Glen


On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > Birkir, just to clarify, your example is good when you're
> hiding/unhiding child elements but if the change is just to the text inside
> the element, then having aria-live on the child is fine.
>
> I have to concur with Birkir, I've seen aria live on the parent required
> for some browser combinations in the past. ARIA live support is still very
> temperamental across browsers and screen readers in my experience.
>
> Jonathan
>