RE: A question about ARIA?

  • From: "Charles Black" <charlesblackusc@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:05:52 -0400

You are correct!  I have seen writings to that extent.  It appears that IE8
starts the integration with ARIA.  

Charles Black

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:04 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: A question about ARIA?

Never mind, just tried it in Firefox3 with JAWS10, and it appears to work 
fine. It's probably that IE7 doesn't work very well with ARIA.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: A question about ARIA?


> Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to suppress the repeated 
> announcement of new content using ARIA?
>
> I've been trying the use of ARIA to announce the "Connecting" and "Page is

> Empty" messages on my page at
> http://gutterstar.net/amazon.php
> Which appears to be announced using IE7 and JAWS10 resulting from the ARIA

> attribute within the relevant Div tags..
>
> Unfortunately though, the same message is repeatedly announced, even 
> though the message is only added once. Any idea why this is happening?
>
> To reproduce, click the Go Forward button to get the "Page is Empty" 
> message, or click one of the product links to get the "Connecting..." 
> message.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
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