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Re: Aria Alert and Progress Loaders

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 10, 2020 6:47AM

I've found a similar issue in that content of elements with
role="alert" gets announced on page load in Chrome (I have not tested
Edge), but does not get announced in Firefox.
In fact, in Firefox, you have no idea what alerts are on the page,
unless they get dynamically injected.

There is some lack of clarity in the ARIA spec in this regard and
overly verbose alerts can be an accessibility barrier, but I still
believe that the alert role should trigger an announcement.
I think the only thing to do is to file Firefox bugs and take the
discussion there.


On 9/10/20, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're using an aria alert in a progress loader.
>
> We're finding inconsistencies in the browsers:
> . In Firefox desktop, the screen reader (NVDA) announces the full
> progress from 1 to 100% even after the loader has completed and focus has
> moved to the main content.
> . Again in Firefox, there is a 1-2 sec delay in announced percentage
> changes. Adjusting the delay doesn't seem to affect the output
> . Viewing in other browsers (Chrome/Edge) with NVDA and other screen
> readers announces a percentage and jumps to main as expected
> Any thoughts on workaround or similar experience?
>
> Thanks,
> == Joel Isaac
>
>
> > > > >


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