[Bug 26135] is role=status correct for output element?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26135

--- Comment #6 from Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> ---
I agree with James here - aria-live should be off.

Here's my rationale: some screen readers have facilities that allow users to
monitor parts of the page that change, or at least quickly jump to them
(VoiceOver hot spots, JAWS PlaceMarkers). However, I'm not aware of any that
let you selectively disable a single live region from being monitored, or even
disable all live regions for just one page.

Given that there's no guidance in the HTML spec that warns web authors to avoid
using <output> excessively, I'd err on the side of caution and not infer live
regions when the author didn't add them explicitly, since too many live regions
can render a page unusable, while too few is usually just a minor
inconvenience.

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Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 17:09:42 UTC