Using role=status to Provide Status Message on Search Results

This demonstrates how messages about search results are returned and surfaced using the aria status role. After a user presses a Search button, the page content pretends to do a search for words that rhyme with "orange". None are returned, which results in a change to content, the message "0 results returned". This text is given an appropriate role for a status message. A screen reader should announce "Zero results returned".


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