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JavaScript/jQuery Tabs - Accessibility

Accessibility Features Overview

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

Keyboard Navigation

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

Key Action
← ↑ or PageUp Moves focus to the previous tab.
→ ↓ or PageDown Moves focus to the next tab.
Home Moves focus to the first tab.
End Moves focus to the last tab.
Enter or Space Selects the tab. Available only if selectionMode is set to 'multiple'.
Shift + Mouse Wheel Scrolls the tabs left/right if the scrollingEnabled property is true.

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

JavaScript
  • function registerKeyHandlers () {
  • const tabs = $("#tabsContainer").dxTabs("instance");
  • tabs.registerKeyHandler("backspace", function(e) {
  • // The argument "e" contains information on the event
  • });
  • tabs.registerKeyHandler("space", function(e) {
  • // ...
  • });
  • }

Screen Reader Support

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