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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:07AM
Subject: aria-live
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Hi,
I have a page that uses tabs. On each tab there are several areas that
load in content via AJAX. If I put aria-live as polite on the container of
these, JAWS just gets overwhelmed as you can imagine and starts re-reading
the content inside the tab from the start several times over. Has anyone
had a similar problem before? Do I need to use aria-busy until each one has
finished? I have a feeling I'm putting the aria-live attribute too far up
the chain.
Thanks,
Dawn
From: Tony Olivero
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:14AM
Subject: Re: aria-live
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Dawn,
What type of content are you loading? If you are simply updating the page
and the user will find the changed content using normal navigation ARIA is
not necessary. Live regions make sense when the content is constantly
changing and a user needs to be alerted to the update. For example, a chat
client where the other participant sends a message.
Tony
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From: Dawn Budge [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:07
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Subject: [WebAIM] aria-live
Hi,
I have a page that uses tabs. On each tab there are several areas that
load in content via AJAX. If I put aria-live as polite on the container of
these, JAWS just gets overwhelmed as you can imagine and starts re-reading
the content inside the tab from the start several times over. Has anyone
had a similar problem before? Do I need to use aria-busy until each one has
finished? I have a feeling I'm putting the aria-live attribute too far up
the chain.
Thanks,
Dawn
From: Dawn Budge
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:34AM
Subject: Re: aria-live
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I find when I navigate to a tab, the items can take long enough to load
that they aren't ready as you read through the page, particularly as the
information is immediately below the tab link.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 4:14 PM
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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] aria-live
Dawn,
What type of content are you loading? If you are simply updating the page
and the user will find the changed content using normal navigation ARIA is
not necessary. Live regions make sense when the content is constantly
changing and a user needs to be alerted to the update. For example, a chat
client where the other participant sends a message.
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Budge [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:07
To: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Subject: [WebAIM] aria-live
Hi,
I have a page that uses tabs. On each tab there are several areas that
load in content via AJAX. If I put aria-live as polite on the container of
these, JAWS just gets overwhelmed as you can imagine and starts re-reading
the content inside the tab from the start several times over. Has anyone
had a similar problem before? Do I need to use aria-busy until each one has
finished? I have a feeling I'm putting the aria-live attribute too far up
the chain.
Thanks,
Dawn