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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Sep 26, 2023 4:50AM

Hello All,

We have a use case where the page reloads on a submission and takes time to
load the page.
When the browser is still taking time to load, is there a way we can
communicate the status to the screen reader users.

We tried updating the page title when the page is loading and used
aria-live regions and role alerts, but JAWS/NVDA is not picking up anything
related to that.

Do we have any working examples that we can refer to and compare the
behaviours of?

Also, on the other hand I feel that screen readers should automatically
pick up the status of the browser loading and communicate that to the user.
I see VoiceOver announces as web busy when the page is still loading but
not JAWS/NVDA.


Thanks in advance!
Sudheer