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Re: Is screen-reader silence on button activation a failure? If so, what does it fail?

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Sep 9, 2021 11:16AM

Okay, good to know. Thanks!

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is screen-reader silence on button activation a failure? If so, what does it fail?

Sometimes having to make minimal changes is all you can do. It's not ideal but is a fact of business sometimes. It's better than no changes.

In your situation, if it's a true button and performs an immediate action, and if you can't make it a toggle button as Birkir mentions, then you are ok as is. You labeled the button with sufficient information that it will select all the checkboxes. There's no need to announce that the action was successful (unless you visibly have text on the screen that says "17 boxes selected", which it sounds like you don't). The only time I'd make an announcement that the button was successful is if there's a chance that it won't be successful. That is, is there a situation where all the checkboxes won't be selected? If not, then no announcement is needed.