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Re: Page loading announcement to screen reader user

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sep 26, 2023 5:23AM

On 26/09/2023 11:50, Sudheer Babu wrote:

> 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.

How are you using the live region/role? Note that if you're essentially
serving the already populated container with aria-live="..." and
role="alert" (i.e. the container already has the message in it in the
markup sent by the server), SRs won't recognise it as a live region
change and not explicitly announce it. live regions need to first be
"primed" (e.g. the browser/SR need to first see the region one time),
and then any *subsequent* changes in content inside that region will be
announced (i.e. you need to push the actual announcement dynamically via
JS into that container, so that the browser/AT then notice a
mutation/change, which then triggers the announcement).

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