Angular Slider - Accessibility

Accessibility Features Overview

NOTE
The overall accessibility level of your application depends on the Slider 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 Slider 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)
Slider does not support Windows High Contrast themes.

The component also complies with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) directives.

Keyboard Navigation

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

Key Action
Left Arrow / Right Arrow Decreases/increases the value of the focused handle by a step.
Page Up / Page Down Decreases/increases the value of the focused handle by a keyStep.
Home / End Sets the focused handle to the minimum/maximum value or to the value of the other handle.

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

jQuery
index.js
const slider = $('#sliderContainer').dxSlider('instance');

slider.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
    // The argument 'e' contains information about the event
});
slider.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
    // ...
});
Angular
app.component.ts
import { ViewChild, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DxSliderComponent } from 'devextreme-angular/ui/slider';

@Component({
    imports: [DxSliderComponent],
    // ...
})
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild(DxSliderComponent, { static: false }) slider!: DxSliderComponent;
    // Prior to Angular 8
    // @ViewChild(DxSliderComponent) slider: DxSliderComponent;

    ngAfterViewInit () {
        this.slider.instance.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information about the event
        });
        this.slider.instance.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
Vue
Code
<template>
    <DxSlider ref="sliderRef" />
</template>

<script setup lang="ts">
import { onMounted, ref } from 'vue';
import { DxSlider } from 'devextreme-vue/slider';

const sliderRef = ref<DxSlider | null>(null);

onMounted(() => {
    sliderRef.value.instance.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
        // The argument "e" contains information about the event
    });
    sliderRef.value.instance.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
        // ...
    });
})

</script>
React
App.tsx
import React, { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import { Slider, type SliderRef } from 'devextreme-react/slider';

function App() {
    const sliderRef = useRef<SliderRef>(null);

    useEffect(() => {
        const slider = sliderRef.current.instance();
        slider.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information about the event
        });
        slider.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }, []);

    return (
        <Slider ref={sliderRef} />
    );
}

Screen Reader Support

The Slider component supports screen readers and complies to WAI-ARIA standards.