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From: Josh Schroder
Date: May 1, 2019 8:11AM

Hi Jeremy,

I did a similar project a while back (jQuery DataTables), and one thing I ran into with testing was the delay between when the user stops typing and when the aria-live region starts announcing results.

It can be very annoying if someone is a slower typist and the live region wants to start announcing search results between each keystroke.

I got around this by setting a delay of about 400ms and deferring processing the results until after that delay. This also improved the performance of the application in relation to CPU/memory usage and made it feel faster in spite of the delay.

Hope that's helpful.

Josh Schroder