Angular ColorBox - Accessibility

Accessibility Features Overview

NOTE
The overall accessibility level of your application depends on the ColorBox features that you use.
Accessibility Requirement Support Level
Right-to-Left Support
Keyboard Navigation Support
Screen Reader Support
Contrast Color Theme
Mobile Device Support
Lighthouse Accessibility Validation
Axe Accessibility Validation
WAVE Accessibility Validation
Section 508 Support
WCAG 2.x Support
  • - All component features meet the requirement
  • - Some component features may not meet the requirement
  • - Accessibility requirement is not supported

Accessibility Standards Compliance

The ColorBox component meets a variety of Section 508 and WCAG 2.x compliance standards. Known exceptions:

Section 508 criteria WCAG 2.x criteria Exception description
501 (Web)(Software)
504.2 (Authoring Tool)
602.3 (Support Docs)
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA)
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)
ColorBox does not support Windows High Contrast themes.
11.5.2.13 Tracking of focus and selection attributes 2.4.3 Focus Order (Level A) The ColorBox component does not meet this criterion.
501 (Web)(Software)
504.2 (Authoring Tool)
602.3 (Support Docs)
2.4.7 Focus Visible (Level AA) The ColorBox palette handle does not have a focus indicator.
- 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) (Level AA 2.2 only) A drop-down button, handlers of alpha channel, and hue scale in ColorBox.

Keyboard Navigation

A user can use the following keys to interact with the ColorBox component:

Key Action
← → ↑ ↓ Moves the color pointer.
Ctrl + ↑ Moves the RGB slider up.
Ctrl + ↓ Moves the RGB slider down.
Ctrl + ← Moves the transparency slider left.
Ctrl + → Moves the transparency slider right.
Enter Selects the color.
Alt + ↑ Opens the drop-down editor.
Alt + ↓ or Esc Closes the drop-down editor.

Use the registerKeyHandler(key, handler) method to implement a custom handler for a key.

jQuery
JavaScript
function registerKeyHandlers () {
    const colorBox = $("#colorBoxContainer").dxColorBox("instance");
    colorBox.registerKeyHandler("backspace", function(e) {
        // The argument "e" contains information on the event
    });
    colorBox.registerKeyHandler("space", function(e) {
        // ...
    });
}
Angular
TypeScript
import { ..., ViewChild, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DxColorBoxModule, DxColorBoxComponent } from 'devextreme-angular';
// ...
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild(DxColorBoxComponent, { static: false }) colorBox: DxColorBoxComponent;
    // Prior to Angular 8
    // @ViewChild(DxColorBoxComponent) colorBox: DxColorBoxComponent;

    ngAfterViewInit () {
        this.colorBox.instance.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.colorBox.instance.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        // ...
        DxColorBoxModule
    ],
    // ...
})
Vue
<template>
    <DxColorBox :ref="myColorBoxRef" />
</template>
<script>
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';

import DxColorBox from 'devextreme-vue/color-box';

const myColorBoxRef = 'my-color-box';

export default {
    components: {
        DxColorBox
    },
    data() {
        return {
            myColorBoxRef
        }
    },
    computed: {
        colorBox: function() {
            return this.$refs[myColorBoxRef].instance;
        }
    },
    mounted: function() {
        this.colorBox.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.colorBox.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
</script>
React
App.js
import React from 'react';
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';

import { ColorBox } from 'devextreme-react/color-box';

class App extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);

        this.colorBoxRef = React.createRef();
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <ColorBox ref={this.colorBoxRef} />
        );
    }

    get colorBox() {
        return this.colorBoxRef.current.instance();
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        this.colorBox.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.colorBox.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}

export default App;

Screen Reader Support

The ColorBox component supports screen readers and complies to WAI-ARIA standards. Known exceptions are listed in the Accessibility Standards Compliance topic.

To improve accessibility, use the inputAttr property to specify aria-label for the component. You do not need to specify aria-label if you use label.