ARIA live regions
Page areas marked with aria-live so screen readers announce their changes; the standard way to announce chat replies and status messages without moving focus.
- Values
- polite, assertive, off
- WCAG criterion
- 4.1.3 Status Messages
Streaming AI replies into a live region token by token interrupts the screen reader repeatedly. Announcing by sentence or on completion is the usual fix.
Connected
- WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)The W3C's testable accessibility standard for web content, organised around perceivable, operable, understandable and robust; version 2.2 is the current recommendation.
- HTML (.html)The markup language of the web. For agent output it gives people a designed, interactive page, at a token cost that depends on whether the agent re-invents the design each run.
Linked from
More concepts & methods
- machine learningscientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform tasks without explicit instructions
- deep learningspecialized form of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to identify patterns in data
- genetic algorithmcompetitive algorithm for searching a problem space
- Altitude, depth and rangeFelix Rieseberg’s framework for ambition with AI models: speed repeats work faster, altitude targets outcomes, depth uses expert instruments and range combines disciplines.
- Outcome-based promptingAsking an AI agent to pursue a specified change for a user or system, with evidence and boundaries, instead of merely producing a named deliverable.
- AI outside judgeAn acceptance check outside an agent’s self-assessment, such as a deterministic test, held-out evaluation, measurement or separately briefed reviewer.