AI UX and Accessibility: Perceived Waiting, aria-live, Keyboard, Feedback and Transparency
A streamed AI answer should reach screen readers as one LiveAnnouncer announcement when the turn ends, not in pieces; focus should stay in the input, and the waiting time and an AI label should be visible. In this post we measure aria-live producing 70 changes for three sentences, the Send/Stop swap dropping focus to body unnoticed by axe-core, fix a contrast issue and wire thumbs up/down feedback to the backend.
14 Nov 2026
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