Accessibility in EJ2 TypeScript Menu control

2 May 202311 minutes to read

ARIA attributes

The web accessibility makes web content and web applications more accessible for people with disabilities. It especially helps in dynamic content change and development of advanced user interface controls with AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. The menu provides a built-in compliance with WAI-ARIA specifications. The WAI-ARIA support is achieved using the attributes such as aria-orientation, aria-label, aria-expanded, aria-disabled, and aria-haspopup applied for menu item in menu. It helps the people with disabilities by providing information about the widget for assistive technology in the screen readers. The menu component contains the menubar, menu, and menuItem roles.

Properties	Functionality
menubar	This role will be specified for root menu.
menu	This role will be specified for an item that have sub menu.
menuitem	This role will be specified for an item that do not have sub menus.
aria-haspopup	Indicates the availability and type of interactive popup element.
aria-expanded	Indicates whether the subtree can be expanded or collapsed, and indicates whether its current state can be expanded or collapsed.
aria-orientation	Indicates whether the orientation is horizontal or vertical. The default orientation is horizontal.
aria-label	Indicates the menu item text.
aria-disabled	Indicates the state of menu item whether it is disabled.

User interaction with keyboard

Keyboard shortcuts	Actions
Esc	Closes the sub menu that contains focus and returns focus to the parent element.
Enter	Opens the sub menu if focused menu item has sub menu, and places focus on its first item or activates the item and closes the sub menu.
Up	Navigates up or to the previous menu item.
Down	Navigates down or to the next menu item.
Left	Closes the current sub menu and navigates to the parent menu.
Right	Navigates and open the next sub menu.
Home	Focuses the first item.
End	Focuses the last item.

index.ts

import { Menu, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

//Menu items definition
let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'Fashion',
        items: [
            {
                text: 'Men Fashion',
                items: [
                    {
                        text: 'Personal Care',
                        items: [
                            { text: 'Trimmers' },
                            { text:  'Shavers' }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        text: 'Clothing',
                        items: [
                            { text: 'Shirts' },
                            { text: 'Jackets' },
                            { text: 'Track Suits' }
                        ]
                    },
                    { text: 'Footwear' }
                ]
            },
            {
                text: 'Women Fashion',
                items: [
                    {
                        text: 'Clothing',
                        items: [
                            { text: 'Kurtas' },
                            { text: 'Salwars' },
                            { text: 'Sarees' }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        text: 'Jewellery',
                        items: [
                            { text: 'Nosepins' },
                            { text:  'Anklets' }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        text: 'Home & Living',
        items: [
            {
                text: 'Washing Machine',
                items: [
                    { text: 'Fully Automatic' },
                    { text: 'Semi Automatic' }
                ]
            },
            {
                text: 'Air Conditioners',
                items: [
                    { text: 'Inverter ACs' },
                    { text: 'Split ACs' }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    { text: 'Sports' },
    { text: 'Gaming' }
];

//Initialize Menu component.
let menuObj: Menu = new Menu({ items: menuItems }, '#menu');

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.1.36/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.1.36/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.1.36/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <!--style reference from app-->
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <!--system js reference and configuration-->
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='loader'>LOADING....</div>
    <div id='container'>
        <div class="control-section">
            <ul id="menu"></ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>