Need: ~"User Agents MAY ignore user-triggered changes to live regions, such as typing in text fields."

[cookiecrook]

We've gotten a bug report against WebKit that VO repeats every character of a text field on Facebook.com. After investigating, the text field is placed inside an ARIA live region.

The spec ~"every change that affects the accessible label" should trigger a live region alert, but I think there should be an exception for user triggered changed like typing.

This is probably an single-sentence "User Agents MAY" change.

[jnurthen]

moving to 1.4 and grouping all live region updates

[adampage]

Hi @cookiecrook , I’m 7 years late to this party 😅 but am wondering if you might be able to point me to the WebKit bug report that kicked off this issue so I can get the full background and see any follow-up activity?

In the meantime, I’ll review all aria-live-related statements in the 1.3 draft to see where we could integrate this change.

[cookiecrook]

wondering if you might be able to point me to the WebKit bug report that kicked off this issue so I can get the full background and see any follow-up activity?

Oh gosh! I feel like the search may be an exercise in futility. I wasn’t the originator, and I didn’t store the title or tracking number in this issue. I looked briefly by keywords, but didn’t find anything obvious, and don’t feel the need to dig further.

I expect we fixed that in WebKit at the time. If it’s obviously a bug implementers don’t usually wait on “permission” from the spec.

[cookiecrook]

For future reference the bug number was rdar://18175382 but that won’t be publicly visible. It was only ever in the internal tracker, and ultimately resulted in a change to VO, not WebKit.