aria-live="polite"

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This test case is designed to determine how aria-live="polite" is announced by various screen readers.

After a 10 second pause, an error message is injected onto the page. This error message should be announced at the next gracefull opportinity, such as the end of a sentence, element etc.

Example

Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him in various ways. With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all.

Code

<div aria-live="polite">
</div>

Assistive technologies

VoiceOver

NVDA

JAWS

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