Accessible Minesweeper »

I posted this article a few weeks ago, but never got around to advertising it. I wanted to think about using ARIA live regions in situations other than the ones commonly cited: tickers, chat logs, scoreboards, etc. Minesweeper is an interesting case because multiple elements can change simultaneously on the game board when the user reveals or flags a tile: multiple tiles flip, the game is won or lost, the timer ticks, the flag count decreases. How might an AT present all this information effectively?