Element: ariaRelevant property

Value

A string containing one or more of the following values, space separated:

"additions"

Additions of Element Nodes within the live region should be considered relevant.

"removals"

Deletion of Nodes from the live region should be considered relevant.

"text"

Changes to the textual content of existing nodes should be considered relevant.

"all"

Equivalent to "additions removals text".

Examples

In this example the aria-relevant attribute on the element with an ID of text is set to "all". Using ariaRelevant we update the value to "text".

<div
  id="clock"
  role="timer"
  aria-live="polite"
  aria-atomic="true"
  aria-relevant="all"></div>

let el = document.getElementById("clock");
console.log(el.ariaRelevant); // all
el.ariaRelevant = "text";
console.log(el.ariaRelevant); // text

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