Status Messages and Alerts

Requirements

• Status messages and alerts should be announced to the user by assistive technologies without receiving a focus.

Full Explanation

4.1.3 Status Messages (Level AA) (WCAG 2.1 requirement)

In content implemented using markup languages, you can programmatically determine status messages through roles or properties such that they can be presented to the user by assistive technologies without receiving focus.

In broad terms, this criterion would require messages (such as alerts, “toast” notifications, or any other status messages appearing on the screen) in a way that they can be announced by assistive technologies – for instance, using ARIA live regions.