Timeline live region includes undesireable things

turt2live commented 5 years ago

turt2live commented 5 years ago

t3chguy commented 4 years ago

Such as

duplicates when you are sending messages due to the sending->sent->null status change
history as you backfill it/scroll up

The Live Region should only include the fragment of the timeline which is not sending/sent and also added on the forward end since first render.

One way to visualise this is splitting the timeline into 3 regions:

Historical fragment: the entire timeline at the time of rendering (status === null)
Live region fragment: the new events which have entered if we are at the live end of the timeline (status === null)
Pending fragment: any events which are in the pending timeline (status !== null)

Bonus points: upon sending out own message a screen reader should just say "Message sent" rather than reading the entire thing out again

Palid commented 2 years ago

@turt2live @t3chguy is this still being relevant?

turt2live commented 2 years ago

almost certainly, though it will need testing.

weeman1337 commented 1 year ago

Still due for testing/figuring out if it is still relevant. Moving to „Need info“ once again.

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