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a11y-status
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You'd like to update your screen reader users on changes in the status of your ui but don't want to create multiple dom elements to notifiy them.
Inject a visually hidden singleton element in the dom which is responsible for notifying screen reader users of updates to the accessibility status of the UI.
yarn add a11y-status # yarn
pnpm add a11y-status # pnpm
npm install a11y-status # npm
Note that the 11
is the number eleven. A-Eleven-Y
is a widely used shorthand for accessibility
.
Import the setStatus
function from this library and then use the function to set the desired status in your code.
import { setStatus } from 'a11y-status';
const button = document.querySelector('#insert-selection');
const select = document.querySelector('#selection');
button.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
const itemName = select.value;
// Notify the screen reader.
setStatus(`Selected item: ${itemName}`);
});
This code was taken from downshift
FAQs
Create a singleton live region for a11y status updates
The npm package a11y-status receives a total of 25,063 weekly downloads. As such, a11y-status popularity was classified as popular.
We found that a11y-status demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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