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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".
>>