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Re: JAWS/IE 11 not announcing aria-live regions?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 7, 2019 8:20PM

When did you update the content of the element with the live region attribute?
If you insert the element with the content and the attribute into the
DOM, you didn't trigger the live region event.
e.g.
<div>
<div aria-live="polie">Hello world!</div>
</div>
is not going to trigger an event, whereas
<div aria-live="polite">
</div>
and then you insert another div with content into that would trigger a
live region event (or it should, IE11 is no longer the gold standard).
aria-live can have values "off" "polite" or "assertive" (aggressive is
not a valid aria-live value).


On 9/7/19, Don Raikes < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I have noticed the same problem with JAWS 2018/2019 and firefox 60.8.0esr.
>
> The only thing I have been able to do to improve the situation is to add the
> aria-atomic="true" attribute to the aria live region. Oh and I was using
> aria-live="aggressive" not "polite".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Jellin < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2019 9:38 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS/IE 11 not announcing aria-live regions?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working with a client on a carousel issue where JAWS (2019)/IE11 is not
> announcing aria-live (polite) regions. I've tested a bunch of aria-live set
> ups on that combo and I'm noticing that it is very inconsistent. Does anyone
> have any insight on this? Is there a way to ensure that JAWS/IE11 will
> reliable announce aria-live?
>
> Even the WAI Aria Best Practices 1.1 carousel example fails:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_TR_wai-2Daria-2Dpractices-2D1.1_examples_carousel_carousel-2D1.html&d=DwICAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=RSYNyNFr7Oj1BRE0qW_8pVA2z0qhUeWtOTBuXmZp9uE&m=ud0Z4yaAg0IluIS6A7rwPtOxMRUbUPhBl1DTTdFcVTM&s=FgzluoG-J2Lj5OvNdFrvDgoIhkruRfus8IzLD0rUKDw&e=
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>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg
>
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