ISSUE-481: aria-live removal events should or must happen before object removal

aria-live removal events

aria-live removal events should or must happen before object removal

State:

CLOSED

Product:

ARIA 2.0 Core AAM

Raised by:

Matthew King

Opened on:

2012-02-20

Description:

Section 5.8.2 of the UAIG includes the following paragraph with a SHOULD. Consider changing to MUST.

User agents SHOULD ensure that an assistive technology, running in process can receive notification of a node being removed prior to removal. This allows an assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to refer back to the corresponding DOM node being deleted. This is important for live regions where removals are important. For example, a screen reader would want to notify a user that another user has left a chat room. The event in MSAA would be EVENT_OBJECT_HIDE. For ATK/AT-SPI this would be children_changed::remove. And in Mac OS X, the event is AXLiveRegionChanged. This also requires the user agent to provide a unique ID in the accessibility API notification identifying the unique node being removed.

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-1368 on Cynthia Shelly to Investigate implementation of aria-live region events in ie apropos issue-481. - due 2014-04-29, closed
• ACTION-1369 on David Bolter to Investigate implementation of aria-live region events in FF - due 2014-05-06, closed
• ACTION-1434 on David Bolter to Contact matt king regarding issue-481, especially regarding multi-process - due 2014-05-27, closed

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