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Re: role="alert" not being read on page load

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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Jun 14, 2019 7:00AM

If we put the error messages after h1 and h2 and some instructions, should we set focus to the error message div on page load?



Joseph

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Isabel Holdsworth
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 4:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] role="alert" not being read on page load

Hi Joseph,

This error doesn't need to be an alert, so long as it's positioned somewhere in the DOM where it can be easily found, for example just after the page's H1 heading.

It would also be helpful to mention in the window title and H1 heading that there's an error.

Cheers, Isabel

On 13/06/2019, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi,
> ARIA live regions are only meant to fire new content events when
> content is dynamically added to them, so it's not surprising that
> nothing is occurring when this is added to a static webpage like this.
>
> This is described in the section 3.5.4: Live Region Caveats,
> http://whatsock.com/training/#hd28
>
> This training document was written when ARIA 1.0 was the primary
> reference, however the guidance here is still valid even with 1.1. I
> plan to update the reference urls and related sections in the future
> as 1.1 and 1.2 changes are resolved.
>
> All the best,
> Bryan
>
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Principal Accessibility Architect
> Level Access, Inc.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.LevelAccess.com
>
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> Hello. I have a form where after the user submits incorrect
> information, the page refreshes with an error message with
> role="alert". However I find the error text is not being read in
> FireFox with JAWS or NVDA. Code below. Are we doing something wrong?
>
> <div role="alert" class="alert alert-error alert-danger"> <ul><li>More
> than one user was found that matches the information you provided.
> Please contact your college support team and tell them you received
> this error.</li></ul></div>
>
>
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> Joseph
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