aria-live="assertive" without role="alert" firefox

[astralaaron]

Is there any way to make aria-live="assertive" work on firefox without having to use role="alert"?   By the way this is using firefox on windows with JAWS.  aria-live with mac on firefox doesn't work.  In the jsfiddle example link below, the live element has role="alert" and it works but if you remove the role="alert" it won't work.  The reason I want to get this working without the role="alert" is because JAWS announces "Alert" before each message which when the role is set to alert.

https://jsfiddle.net/st5vnsd9/16/

 

Thank you everyone

[astralaaron]

I think this may be a (hopefully temporary) issue with Firefox and aria-live as I can see there are pages written about aria-live with examples on the Mozilla Developer website: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Live_Regions  The example's don't have role="alert".   I recently noticed a popup alert when opening firefox while running JAWS which mentions that "some accessibility features are disabled due to conflicts with new firefox features".

So I guess all there is to do at this point is hope they fix this. Chat areas using aria-live as it is right now would be terrible with it announcing "ALERT!" before each new message.

[davej]

I'm glad I'm not working on the "bleeding edge" of things. All you can do is read the available MDN documentation and try different options.