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Re: Insertion of content into documents.

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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Jan 6, 2020 3:05PM

Mallory

I see the problem in three or four areas at this stage.
- User interaction which you touched upon. This covers notification of new information being made available via ARIA or Focus change.
- Assistive Technology being aware of the DOM being updated. This event change would need to be sent from the browser. Not sure if this occurs. My understanding is Jaws waits for the JavaScript to load or just before it loads. Cannot recall which order it is. So the question here does the browser raise any events via the accessibility API to notify assistive tech of changes to the DOM via dynamic content changes?
- Developers inserting the content after an action in the correct position of the DOM which we both touched upon.

The above are very high overview and more than likely very simplified. Is there anything missing?

Sean