Does chrome behave any better?
JOn
Jonathan C. Cohn
jonc...@cox.net
On May 8, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> I went to reproduce the issue and ran into another one. For some reason I
> can't get aria-atomic="false" working in Safari with Voiceover. I have a
> container on a page like this:
>
> <div id="box1" role="log" aria-live="polite">
>
> and I stuff random numbers in there once every three seconds with a
> javascript method like this:
>
> function update(){
> var r,f,d=document;
> //Create a 5 digit random number
> r=(""+Math.random()).substr(2,5);
> //Create a span with the new entry and append it to the list
> f=d.createElement("span");
> f.innerHTML=r+"<br/>";
> //Add it to the chat log
> d.getElementById("box1").appendChild(f)
> //Do it again in a little while
> setTimeout("update()",3000);
> }
>
> What I expected was that as each number was injected into box1 the live
> region stuff would cause VO to read it. What actually happened was that all
> the numbers were read. This would be the equivalent of setting
> aria-atome="true" but it's supposed to default to "false". Event setting
> atomic="false" had no effect. Running this same demo on Jaws on Firefox on
> Windows 7 works just fine as does NVDA. So is seems like there is some kind
> of basic VO live-region weirdness.
>
> CB
>
> On 5/7/12 4:22 PM, Doug Lawlor wrote:
>> Hello list:
>> I am working with a binary options broker who has live regions on their web
>> site that update with pricing information. I can find the region and get it
>> to speak by arrowing over it using quickNav. I'm sure VO/left and right
>> arrows will do the same thing. The problem I am having is when I'm focused
>> on this region VoiceOver does not speak it as it's being updated. I have
>> Live regions enabled in the Web tab of the VoiceOver utility. Anyone else
>> have any pointers on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Doug
>>
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