Make messagebox a live region #9
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Making the messagebox a live region is important as it conveys to screen readers that the content should be announced when added to the DOM, or otherwise has been updated. This PR adds the
statusrole (a live region role) to the messagebox.The
role="status"ARIA attribute is implicitlyaria-live="polite"andaria-atomic="true", however it's best to be explicit with these values per MDN advice:And looking at the support table for
role=status, we can see that not all browsers convey the implicitaria-atomicvalue oftrueby announcing the entire region, so we're explicit about that too.FWIW I've only tested this using 1 screen reader (ChromeVox), and it works as expected; the content is announced as it is visually displayed to the user.