ARIA roles: status & alert

status

A type of live region whose content is advisory information for the user but is not important enough to justify an alert, often but not necessarily presented as a status bar. Have an implicit aria-live of polite

alert

A type of live region with important, and usually time-sensitive, information. See related alertdialog and status. Have an implicit aria-live of assertive

An advantage to using a live region role over aria-live is that live region roles accept an accessible name. e.g. you can link the element with the role to some contextual headings with aria-labelledby and both will be read.

Neither should shift focus, and neither should require a user to close them.

If focus should move to a message, an alertdialog is better suited.

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https://w3c.github.io/aria/#alert https://w3c.github.io/aria/#status

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