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From: Weissenberger, T M
Date: May 4, 2020 11:44AM

Colleagues,

My understanding of the ARIA alert is that is announces assertively to screen readers when an element with the alert role is dynamically generated or revealed. Is there an agreed-upon best practice for when this information is not presented dynamically, but is instead static? I'm thinking about things like public safety announcements or the many COVID-19 updates we're now seeing pinned to the beginning of a webpage.

Should we be using <section> or a region role with an informative aria-label? Is there some better way to emphasize this specialized, high-level info?

Any thoughts are welcome.

Kind regards,
T.M.

T.M. Weissenberger
IT Accessibility Coordinator
University of Iowa

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