RE: Question about animated images and ARIA

Right .. I confused that with "alertdialog" .. sorry ..  hmmm .. have to give it a try with latest AT, thanks :)

From: Steven Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 12:22
To: Schnabel, Stefan
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
Subject: 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<mailto: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?
Isn't this a kind of a progress indicator (loading of page)

Regards
Stefan


From: Steven Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com<mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com>]
Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 12:13
To: Schnabel, Stefan
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org<mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Question about animated images and ARIA

hi stefan,
role="alert" ? with an alt text of "loading",

regards
steve
2009/10/14 Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com<mailto:stefan.schnabel@sap.com>>
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!

- Stefan



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