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.
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