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 > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind