# Accessibility software and discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-software-and-discourse/13711
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 13, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-software-and-discourse/13711 "2014-03-13T22:14:08Z")
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### Author: ![Stomme\_poes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stomme_poes/32/108689_2.png) [@Stomme\_poes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stomme_poes)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-software-and-discourse/13711/50 "2015-05-09T09:08:17Z")

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I thought aria-atomic=true was the default, is this needed explicitly for support reasons?

edit: nevermind, that’s only on alerts. default is false otherwise.

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