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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 30, 2024 12:58PM

On 30/04/2024 19:12, Sumit Patel wrote:

> 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.

In this case, there doesn't seem to be an actual WCAG failure (as 4.1.3
Status Messages, for instance, only applies if there's a visible
status/confirmation message which would then need to be announced). As a
best practice though, you probably want to have some form of
confirmation (both for screen readers and non-SR users alike), which
then you do want to have announce as a live region for instance.

> Similarly, after successfully submitting a form within a
> dialog closes the dialog . Here also no status message or no change on the
> page .

Closing a dialog should result in focus being moved (explicitly)
somewhere sensible (which then, in turn, should result in the newly
focused thing being announced, which gives an indication that something
happened to SR users). If focus is just lost, that's generally a failure
of 2.4.3 Focus Order .

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