Status message
A change in content communicating results, progress, errors, or state without necessarily moving focus.
What Status message means
Assistive technology needs programmatic exposure to announce it appropriately.
Related terms in Accessibility and provenance
What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
Keyboard accessibility · Focus order · Focus indicator · ARIA · Accessible description · Color contrast · Reduced motion · Captions · Audio description · Content Credential · C2PA assertion · C2PA claim · Claim signature · Manifest store · Content binding · Hard binding · Soft binding · Ingredient · Trust list · landmark · contrast ratio
Questions about Status message
What is Status message?
A change in content communicating results, progress, errors, or state without necessarily moving focus.
What does Status message not show or guarantee?
A change in content communicating results, progress, errors, or state without necessarily moving focus.
Which area of the glossary does Status message belong to?
Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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