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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".
>