Hello Anna,

Thank you for your input.

I will address each of the six points below:

1. You are correct. Currently, upon open, the Kendo Notification is not announced by screen readers. It actually lacks the role="alert", which will force the readers to announce its content upon open. 

2. Notifications are currently not focusable out-of-the-box. That is also something we should improve the widget. With the current state of the Notification, you could define a template for the widget which would hold a focusable element (tabindex="0"). This way you will be able to navigate to that element.

3. I am afraid that is also correct. The close button available in the Notification element is a simple span. It has no role set. Moreover, it has no text content or aria-label attribute set. As a result, even if focused, the screen reader would not announce anything.

4. Similarly to the entire Notification itself, the close button could not be focused.

5. The Notification focusing issue discussed above affects this scenario. In addition to focusing the Notification, the user should be allowed to manually close it by hitting a certain key.

6. The contrast issue should not be present when using the Kendo High Contrast theme.

Having all that said, I should agree that the Notification widget does not feature an accessible widget. Having that said, I have added the following issue to our backlog.

As a small token of gratitude for the reported, I have updated your Telerik points.

Regards,
Veselin Tsvetanov
Progress Telerik