Re: WAI-ARIA live regions and "politeness" levels

Hi Patrick,

They're designed to describe an interruption policy, similar to a member 
of a roundtable discussion. What policy should be used by this content in 
terms of interrupting the user or other content being presented? It seems 
universal.

The idea of "importance" was rejected because no author wants to describe 
their content as "unimportant".  It also doesn't really describe how the 
interruptions should work.

- Aaron



From:
"Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
To:
W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Date:
12/08/2008 07:19 PM
Subject:
WAI-ARIA live regions and "politeness" levels




Hi,

not sure if it's already too late to talk about this, but...one thing 
that strikes me as somewhat odd is the "politeness" levels idea for live 
regions http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#live

The values just seem strange, compared to other more matter-of-fact 
values...almost "cute" in a way. It is too far down the line to float 
the idea of changing these to something more along the lines of:

off, informative, important, critical

P
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