Recommend different default message for NavigationNarrator

[fdeters]

TL,DR;

Inviting discussion: I recommend using the page title as the default navigation announcement text.

Description

I've been using ember-a11y-refocus in some of my public-facing apps for about a year. During that time, I have been lucky enough to put those apps through accessibility-focused user testing multiple times. However, there's been a problem with the navigation announcement. I'm curious if anyone else has had this experience when testing apps that user ember-a11y-refocus with screen reader users.

At least two screen reader users (albeit ones with lots of web dev a11y knowledge) have commented that the <NavigationNarrator> text is confusing and not what they expect when navigating pages. I received two main pieces of feedback:

1. The user expected to hear the title of the page, not whatever text is in the narrator (for me, it's "Page loaded").
2. The user was confused that the text is persistent on the page.

For the first issue, I think it may be less confusing if the narrator announces the new page title. I'm not sure what to do about the second issue.

I welcome any insight others may have!

[MelSumner]

Thanks for filing this issue!

The best thing about this addon (and admittedly I'm a tad biased) is that it allows for customization of practically everything. So if you don't prefer the default message, you can change it.

See https://github.com/ember-a11y/ember-a11y-refocus#additional-options (specifically, navigationText).

I'll leave this issue open for a little while so others can chime in if they like, but to be honest, I probably don't plan to change it (I also feel strongly that announcing only the page title meets the letter of the law but not the intent in this case).