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From: Weston Thayer
Date: Apr 30, 2024 1:01PM

In the copy scenario, any chance the Copy button disappears after invoking
(like if it was in a tooltip or menu that showed on text selection)? If so
that'd make it similar to the dialog.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:58 AM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>
>
> On 30/04/2024 19:12, Sumit Patel wrote:
>
> > It is really if screen reader is silent after user action .
> > But, Is it a WCAG failure if there is no change on the screen after that
> > action For example : Clicking Copy button copies the above sentence to
> > clipboard . But, ther is no status message or any other visual clu that
> it
> > has been copied.
>
> In this case, there doesn't seem to be an actual WCAG failure (as 4.1.3
> Status Messages, for instance, only applies if there's a visible
> status/confirmation message which would then need to be announced). As a
> best practice though, you probably want to have some form of
> confirmation (both for screen readers and non-SR users alike), which
> then you do want to have announce as a live region for instance.
>
> > Similarly, after successfully submitting a form within a
> > dialog closes the dialog . Here also no status message or no change on
> the
> > page .
>
> Closing a dialog should result in focus being moved (explicitly)
> somewhere sensible (which then, in turn, should result in the newly
> focused thing being announced, which gives an indication that something
> happened to SR users). If focus is just lost, that's generally a failure
> of 2.4.3 Focus Order .
>
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