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Stock tickers are a commonly sighted example of something ARIA live regions might be useful for. But has anyone actually ever seen this in the wild? Would #screenReader users actually want a stock ticker to ever be implemented in this way? #accessibility
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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nope. The places I want live events they don't happen and the places I do they don't.
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Many pages with stock tickers usually have more than one, and the updates would be so frequent as to be overwhelming (at least during market hours). So I'm just not clear on the expected user experience. Seems like someone was just reaching for an instance of information that changes a lot, and a bad example has propagated.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@cachondo yeah, unless there were quick keyboard shortcuts which gave control over injected live alerts and which tracked stocks have them, it would be more useful. Unfortunately it's easiest to use an example without considering the finer implementation details Thus if someone made that without thinking through what's cited, they'd make a horrible experience. Live regions only work if the dynamic content is timely, not overwhelming and context-aware
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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Yes I've seen it, for foreign exchange and not actual stocks but still, and it's an awful, terrible, insane idea.
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