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Live regions are scoped

Inclusion and adaptation · essential check · measured with axe-core · C170.2

Live regions must be valid and small, never the whole page.

When it fails

A live region is invalid or covers too much: a live-region attribute is invalid, the region is page-level, or its area exceeds half the viewport

Passes when

Live regions use valid values and a bounded scope

How to fix it

Put aria-live on the small element that holds the status message, not on body or main, and use a valid value such as polite.

Its threshold is a starting value that we still calibrate against real pages.