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Re: Aria Alert and Progress Loaders

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 10, 2020 9:04AM

Yeap, you're absolutely right there.
I'm currently "stuck" in Mexico on vacation, I'll look itno it when I get back.

On 9/10/20, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 14:04, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
>> Well, I used to think so too, but sometimes you need to mark up an
>> important announcement on a page, one that gets aggressive visual
>> treatment (imagine an emergency closure alert).
>> You can do the right things, place it at the top of the page or the
>> main content, mark it with an h1, but ultimately sometimes you want it
>> announced. The alert role would work well in this scenario, and I
>> think there is a role or attribute that should trigger announcement on
>> page load (doing it by hacking delays and injection with Javascript is
>> not super reliable).
>> Then again I am maybe just temporarily being swayed by dealing with a
>> specific practical problem.
>
> I'm not saying that there's no use case for doing that. I'm saying that
> per the spec, browser/AT combos should not be announcing it on page
> load. The fact that some browsers/ATs currently do is a bug that you're
> currently relying on. Either the spec should be changed, or a new
> attribute should be spec'd, because if browsers fix their bugs, you'll
> end up with no announcements on page load which is what the spec says.
>
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