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Re: [EXTERNAL]Best way to prevent screen reader reading aria-live region in browse mode?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 19, 2019 8:07AM


On 19/06/2019 14:35, Mark Magennis wrote:
> I'm not hiding anything that's on screen though. This feedback message is only intended for screen reader users.

Leaving aside whether or not there should be some visible
tooltip/toast/notification for non AT users...you could generate it well
out of the likely way of the user's position in the document (e.g. right
at the end of the doc) and after a generous-enough timeout (few
seconds?) remove it completely?

P
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