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Re: Confirmation of actions - violation or feature?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 19, 2018 3:45PM


> Any how, I am curious to know ways to handle aria live announcements upon page reloads. I tried it using window.onload, but it appears more like a temp hack.

You should not expect aria-live to work or be triggered on page load. This is not how it was designed to work. In theory you could put some sort of timed changes together to trigger after the document is loaded but this would not be advisable or reliable.

Jonathan