Re: Question about animated images and ARIA

hi stefan,
alert is not a dialog role, what it does in practice is announce the element
content prefixed by "alert" , without moving focus to the element.



regards
steve

2009/10/14 Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>

>  Nice .. but is this really a „dialog“ role ?? hmmmm .. I don’t know. Any
> comment from the other ARIA BPG guys?
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> Isn’t this a kind of a progress indicator (loading of page)
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> Regards
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> Stefan
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> *From:* Steven Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 12:13
> *To:* Schnabel, Stefan
> *Cc:* wai-xtech@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Question about animated images and ARIA
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> hi stefan,
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> role="alert" ? with an alt text of "loading",
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> regards
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> steve
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> 2009/10/14 Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
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> The question came up which ARIA role (if any) to use for an image (an
> animated gif file) that shows a "Loading" animation while a large page is
> loading. Any idea? Help gratefully appreciated!
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> - Stefan
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> Steve Faulkner
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