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Re: Page loading announcement to screen reader user

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Sep 26, 2023 7:57AM

Thanks for all the responses! I really appreciate it.

@Echols - thanks for pointing that out, it indeed is a traditional website.
I forgot to mention that in my original email.
We will look into that option you mentioned.
Thanks!


On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:10 PM Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> If you're creating a single-page app, the information below is irrelevant
> and you should ignore me :)
>
> But if you're talking about a traditional website, where the entire page
> is being requested from the server, there may not be any techniques that
> will get what you want here. If the form submission takes a long time to
> process, there may not be a title or body until after that occurs.
>
> In a case like this, it is probably good to have some messaging on the
> form to let everybody know that the form submission can take some time. You
> could also have an intermediate page with a very minimal "processing your
> submission" message. This approach takes some server-side work that will
> depend on your approach and the backend technology in use, but it gives
> everybody a nice page that lets them know the form processor is slow, but
> it is working.
>
>