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Re: [External Sender] NVDA - aria-live=polite not announced

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Feb 21, 2019 12:58PM

Hmm...then there may be some attribute on a containing element that is
causing this. As long as the element with aria-live on it exists at page
load, and then the contents of that element is changed, it should announce.
It sounds like the element is visible, so I would look for
aria-hidden="true" on a containing element. Do you have a code snipped you
can provide?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:44 PM Tomlins Diane <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> The whole thing is a single page application, so it's not actually
> changing pages, it's just changing the content in the container, and
> they're updating the message.
>
>
> > In step 4, you say "the article page is displayed". That sounds like it
> might be a new page being loaded. If the "same" div has text A on one page
> and text B on another page, then the text has not changed as far as
> aria-live is concerned. I don't know if that's the case here, but it would
> account for the element not being announced.
>
>

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