Use role=alert for all notifications (#17079)

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: Ia110d96b8254b98ed66f0765330865099e729abc

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/shared/src/com/vaadin/shared/ui/ui/UIState.java b/shared/src/com/vaadin/shared/ui/ui/UIState.java
index 2f51fef6ee..6f7a531eb6 100644
--- a/shared/src/com/vaadin/shared/ui/ui/UIState.java
+++ b/shared/src/com/vaadin/shared/ui/ui/UIState.java
@@ -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.