Widget Accessibility Question

LiveWhale
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Our Digital Accessibility team has found an issue with how the pagination works for keyboard users: specifically, when clicking “next/previous” the screen reader doesn’t announce a change occurred to the user.

Here’s a page can you view to check the issue since these 2 widgets both have pagination enabled: Prod Sitecore Test Widgets | Heather Test Site

Their specific comment was:
Activating “Next” page link doesn’t announce change in context to screen reader user; update , move focus to main content, announce update to screen reader user; see WAI-ARIA in Single Page Applications (SPAs): Best Practices for Accessibility

I don’t think I have access to code that would allow us to try and resolve the issue on our end. If I’m wrong and we can do something to fix it, please let me know!

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Hi Heather,

Thanks for raising this – I see, on the calendar main page we have some aria-live announcements and focus handling for “Show more” pagination, but that wasn’t extended to the injected LWC widget case.

We’ve got a working test version of that new screen-reader behavior now on our development servers and will roll a finalized version into our next minor release. Thanks!

Karl