Jaws for Windows (at least up to Jaws 16) does not announce any role=status messages at all so the user will not hear any tray messages or assistive messages without this change Change-Id: Ia110d96b8254b98ed66f0765330865099e729abctags/7.6.0.alpha3
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ | |||
<li>Widgetset files and other pre-compressed resources are sent as gzip to compatible browsers. | |||
This may interfere with custom response compression solutions that do not respect the Content-Encoding response header.</li> | |||
<li>Unused methods related to the "out of sync" message have been removed from SystemMessages class.</li> | |||
<li>All notifications use the WAI-ARIA alert role to be compatible with Jaws</li> | |||
</ul> | |||
<h3 id="knownissues">Known Issues and Limitations</h3> | |||
<ul> |
@@ -43,12 +43,16 @@ public class UIState extends TabIndexState { | |||
notificationConfigurations.put("humanized", | |||
new NotificationTypeConfiguration("Info: ", null, | |||
NotificationRole.ALERT)); | |||
// We use alert instead of status for all notifications because | |||
// (at least) Jaws 16 and earlier fail to announce any role=status | |||
// message in Chrome/Firefox | |||
notificationConfigurations.put("tray", | |||
new NotificationTypeConfiguration("Status: ", null, | |||
NotificationRole.STATUS)); | |||
NotificationRole.ALERT)); | |||
notificationConfigurations.put("assistive", | |||
new NotificationTypeConfiguration("Note: ", null, | |||
NotificationRole.STATUS)); | |||
NotificationRole.ALERT)); | |||
} | |||
/** | |||
* State related to the Page class. |