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Fix ARIA Live Region screen reader issue in Firefox #404

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@geo-connor geo-connor commented Oct 31, 2019

This branch removes the aria-relevant="additions" attribute from the screen reader assistant element. This attribute currently prevents assistant text from being announced by screen readers in Firefox (tested using NVDA).

It's my understanding that there are few advantage to setting aria-relevant unless you want to encourage screen readers to announce more changes (using "all" to announce content removals). The default value of aria-relevant is "additions text". Is it necessary to exclude text changes from being announced here?

resolves #403

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Thanks for the PR @geo-connor will check this out on Monday

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Sorry haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Have you tested this with VoiceOver as well?

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Live region content not read by screen reader (NVDA) in Firefox
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