Indication of status in screen readers captivate 2019

Question

Hi. I've got a problem with the accessibility of my project. When clicking on my smartform used as a button it changes status indicating that it has been clicked. Is there a way to tell screen readers too, that status has changed (by changing ARIA description or something like that).

Lilybiri · Accepted Answer

Alternative to a multistate object would be to use a Show/hide workflow. Sorry, will not write in German, because there would be too much 'Fehler'.

I suppose the last state (Erledigt) is a custom state, because you didn't like the InBuilt Visited state and want to have the custom state appear later. It would replace the Normal state in that case. Will that button still be kept 'active', can it still be clicked? If you disable the button, you could keep a transparent state and add the command 'Show' to show an image mimicking the Done state. Such an image can have a tag to be read by the screen reader.

Please, next time do never attach screenshots but insert them! I rarely dare to download attachments for security and time reasons. I have to download, open them in a graphics application (PNG is linked to PS in my case), view them, then delete them again from my system.

Lilybiri · Answer

Interesting quesstion. How did you mark the shape button as being clicked? Do you use the InBuilt Visited state or did you create a custom state which you apply using an action? Was that state just a change in style or did you add an object like a checkmark (I wonder if that could be a possibility to add a tag to the new object?).

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