RE: Question about animated images and ARIA

It could also be  a progress bar:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#progressbar

Although it doesn't seem like the animation of the gif actually represents the progress of loading.

I agree with Steven, it seems more of an alert to users that something is loading.

Jon

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:18:29 +0200
>From: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>  
>Subject: RE: Question about animated images and ARIA  
>To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
>Cc: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
>
>   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]
>   Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 12:13
>   To: Schnabel, Stefan
>   Cc: 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>
>
>   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
>
>   --
>   with regards
>
>   Steve Faulkner
>   Technical Director - TPG Europe
>   Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium
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