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From: Sumit Patel
Date: Apr 30, 2024 12:12PM

Hai all,

It is really if screen reader is silent after user action .
But, Is it a WCAG failure if there is no change on the screen after that
action For example : Clicking Copy button copies the above sentence to
clipboard . But, ther is no status message or any other visual clu that it
has been copied. Similarly, after successfully submitting a form within a
dialog closes the dialog . Here also no status message or no change on the
page .

Here in the first scenario, a Visually Impaired user would not come to know
whether the text copied to clipboard or not unless they read the clipboard
content. In the second scenario, keyboard focus set back to the button
which the user initially clicked to open the dialog . They didn't get any
message to notify them that the form was submitted successfully .

Do I need to mark these scenarios as violations of 4.1.3 or just best
practices which are good to have

Would like to know your thoughts

Regards,
Sumit.