a11y-announcer

A11y-announcer

This addon is to allow for accessible route changes inside of your ember application. Currently when you change a route, nothing alerts a screen reader that the route has changed. This is very bad, screen reader users just hear silence.

The goal for this addon is to fill the gaps in embers router. Thank you to @patrickfox for the idea!

Getting Started

• ember install a11y-announcer
• In your router.jsfile import the mixin:

import A11yAnnouncer from 'a11y-announcer/mixins/announcer';

var Router = Ember.Router.extend(A11yAnnouncer, {...});

• Add {{route-announcer}} to your application.hbs file.

Pushing updates to the announcer

Sometimes you want to push an announcement of some sort to the announcer. To do that you need to inject the announcer service:

export default Ember.Controller.exten({
  announcer: Ember.inject.service('announcer')
})

Now that the service has been injected you can call the announce method: this.get('announcer').announce('Your Message', 'polite');

It takes two arguments. The first argument is the message that you want to be read off by the screen reader. The second argument is how aggressively the message will be read off. There are three different strings you can pass here:

• off which means nothing will be read
• polite which will not interrupt the screen reader
• assertive which will immediately interrupt the screen reader

Installation

• git clone this repository
• npm install
• bower install

Running

• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build

For more information on using ember-cli, visit http://www.ember-cli.com/.

Changelog

v0.2.0 (2015-09-07)

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