Semantics
A type of live region whose content is advisory information for the user but is not important enough to justify an alert, often but not necessarily presented as a status bar.
Additional info from the ARIA specification
Authors SHOULD ensure an element with role status does not receive focus as a result of change in status.
Status is a form of live region. If another part of the page controls what appears in the status, authors SHOULD make the relationship explicit with the aria-controls attribute.
Assistive technologies MAY reserve some cells of a Braille display to render the status.
Elements with the role status have an implicit aria-live value of polite and an implicit aria-atomic value of true.
Abstract Role
Live RegionRepresents dynamic content or an announcement, typically updated as a result of an external event when user focus may be elsewhere.
Content Categories
Flow ContentAn element that structures and organizes the body of a web document.
Allowed Descendants
Flow Children Allowed
No main element descendants allowed.
Usage
Allowed HTML elements
Implicit semantics
These elements have the role semantics by default, without needing to set the role attribute. Reach for elements with native semantics first when choosing how to implement a role in your content.
output
Explicitly allowed
section[role=status]
Elements that can have any role
abbr[role=status]address[role=status]b[role=status]blockquote[role=status]canvas[role=status]cite[role=status]code[role=status]custom-element[role=status]data[role=status]del[role=status]dfn[role=status]div[role=status]em[role=status]figure[role=status]i[role=status]ins[role=status]kbd[role=status]mark[role=status]p[role=status]pre[role=status]q[role=status]samp[role=status]small[role=status]span[role=status]table[role=status]tbody[role=status]tfoot[role=status]thead[role=status]time[role=status]u[role=status]var[role=status]