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Live region

A part of a page marked so that screen readers announce its changes without the person leaving where they are.

A live region is an area of the page that a screen reader watches. When its content changes, the screen reader announces the new text without moving the person’s focus. It is how a page says “3 items added to cart,” “Saving…,” or “Your message was sent” to someone who cannot see the corner of the screen where that text appeared.

ARIA provides it through the aria-live attribute and roles such as status and alert, described in the W3C’s ARIA Authoring Practices Guide. The common mistakes are announcing too much, so the person is interrupted constantly, and announcing nothing, so a form submits and a person using a screen reader hears nothing.

Source

ARIA Authoring Practices Guide

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Checked .

ARIA
A set of HTML attributes that tell assistive technology what a custom control is, what it is called, and what state it is in.
Error identification
Telling a person which form field has a problem and what to do about it, in text, next to the field.
Screen reader
Software that reads what is on the screen aloud or sends it to a braille display.

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