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

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From: Greg Jellin
Date: Sep 8, 2019 9:07AM

I think you are right, Birkir. The WAI example is not inserting new
content into the div, it is simply turning aria-live from "off" to
"polite". I did change that to "assertive" and added aria-atomic="true",
to no avail. I'll have to write up something to insert new content into
the div rather than just flip the aria-live value. I think that will work.

I'll submit a bug to WAI.

Thanks for your help.

Greg

On 9/7/2019 7:20 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> 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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