Doesn't seem to work?

[bschlenk]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm testing out the polyfill w/ Safari 26.5 and VO on Tahoe 26.5.1 and nothing is announced. And in the latest Chrome and FF, where ariaNotify is supported natively, it also doesn't seem to work at all with VO. The only thing I've see work in testing is NVDA with native ariaNotify on Chrome. Am I using the polyfill wrong? Has it been tested and confirmed working with VO on any browser?

It would be nice if there was a way to force the polyfill to run and overwrite the native ariaNotify to see if that could at least make Chrome/FF work with VO.

[bschlenk]

Ok sorry, I spoke too soon. I did a bit more testing, and it does seem to work okay in safari (safari is just inconsistent about any aria-live region). I tested across a few different browsers, I wasn't able to test the polyfill w/ jaws, but the native ariaNotify does not work at all with jaws. A hand rolled aria-live="polite" does seem to work, which would point at the polyfill probably working there too.

The only major difference I'm seeing between the polyfill and native is that native doesn't seem to queue. It does respect the two channels (high / normal) in that if you trigger both at the same time, it will announce the high pri one and then the normal one. but otherwise it doesn't do any queuing, a new message interrups existing ones. The polyfill bakes in a 250ms delay and so does act more like a queue. I wouldn't necessarily call that an issue, just noting the difference.