Element: ariaAtomic property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2023.

The ariaAtomic property of the Element interface reflects the value of the aria-atomic attribute, which indicates whether assistive technologies will present all, or only parts of, the changed region based on the change notifications defined by the aria-relevant attribute.

Value

A string with one of the following values:

"false"

Assistive technologies will present only the changed node or nodes.

"true"

Assistive technologies will present the entire changed region as a whole, including the author-defined label if one exists.

Examples

In this example the aria-atomic attribute on the element with an ID of "clock" is set to "true". Using ariaAtomic we update the value to "false".

html
<div id="clock" role="timer" aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true"></div>
js
let el = document.getElementById("clock");
console.log(el.ariaAtomic); // true
el.ariaAtomic = "false";
console.log(el.ariaAtomic); // false

Specifications

Specification
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
# dom-ariamixin-ariaatomic

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
ariaAtomic
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 81 (Release date: 2020-04-07)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 81 (Release date: 2020-04-13)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 119 (Release date: 2023-10-24)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 68 (Release date: 2020-04-22)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 12.1 (Release date: 2019-03-25)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 81 (Release date: 2020-04-07)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 119 (Release date: 2023-10-24)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 58 (Release date: 2020-05-13)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 12.2 (Release date: 2019-03-25)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 13 (Release date: 2020-12-02)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 81 (Release date: 2020-04-07)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 12.2 (Release date: 2019-03-25)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support