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JavaScript/jQuery ButtonGroup - Accessibility

Accessibility Features Overview

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

Keyboard Navigation

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

Key Action
← ↑ or PageUp Moves focus to the previous button.
→ ↓ or PageDown Moves focus to the next button.
Home Moves focus to the first button.
End Moves focus to the last button.
Enter or Space Identical to a click.

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

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

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

import DxButtonGroup from 'devextreme-vue/button-group';

const myButtonGroupRef = 'my-button-group';

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

import { ButtonGroup } from 'devextreme-react/button-group';

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

        this.buttonGroupRef = React.createRef();
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <ButtonGroup ref={this.buttonGroupRef} />
        );
    }

    get buttonGroup() {
        return this.buttonGroupRef.current.instance();
    }

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

export default App;

Screen Reader Support

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

Each button's aria label depends on the properties you use. If you specify the text property, its value is copied to the aria-label. If you do not specify text, but set the icon property, the icon can affect the aria label, depending on the value:

  • SVG
    The content of the title tag is copied to the aria label.

  • DevExtreme icon, font icon
    The icon name is copied to the aria label.

  • Path to the icon file
    The file name is copied to the aria label.

In other cases, use elementAttr to specify the aria-label directly.