Re: New SC relating to notifications of content change (was Re: Some thinking around the orientation discussion)

Gregg wrote:
> "we used “change of context” to separate important from unimportant changes…  since you don’t want an alert each time the clock rolls over  or ticker on the page changes content.”

So I can see how changing search results by a filter (onchange) gets caught, but how about the add to basket scenario?

E.g. You are in a product page or search results page on an ecommerce site, select ‘add to basket’, which updates a widget in the header.

For example, one of the lower products on this page: http://www.next.co.uk/g312266s4

BTW I’m not saying that site is accessible except for this issue, I’m using this as a visual / magnification example.

I’m fairly sure that site added the pop-up by the basket due to the inherent usability issue, but that ‘fix' doesn’t help magnification / screen reader users (unless they use ARIA live, which they don’t appear to).

That wouldn’t seem to qualify as a change of context, and it happens due to a user-action, what would that fail under at the moment?

Cheers,

-Alastair

Received on Monday, 9 May 2016 08:55:44 UTC