Re: [orca-list] Firefox caching

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl> wrote:
 
> A warning about down-arrowing to see new content: some (many) developers
> update some other part of the page instead.  They shouldn't, for
> lots of people, but many developers don't seem to realise not
> everyone sees all the screen all the time.  Especially "growls" and
> that sort of thing, or error messages placed in front of forms 
> but without a refresh (or even after: Amazon's I miss easily). 
> Because of this, I would want (ideally) an announcement every time new 
> content is brought on the page. 

Aria is designed to solve those problems, and the developer can specify
whether the message should interrupt the user or not by choosing a politeness
level.