There are two solutions to ARIA Live Region issues:

1. Don’t use ARIA Live Regions (but use focus, dialogs, or other managing of what’s going on)
2. Put the live region in the DOM at page load (They cost nothing. If you need an alert and a status, put two divs in with both roles.)

See more in these slides:

https://talks.yatil.net/Ux0REi/were-aria-live

#a11y #accessibility

We’re ARIA Live! by Eric Eggert

Find (accessible) HTML slides here: https://slides.yatil.net/were-aria-live.html

I should update and record this talk and send it to my supporters on Steady.