Accessibility in EJ2 JavaScript Drop down button control

10 May 20236 minutes to read

ARIA attributes

The web accessibility makes web content and web applications more accessible for people with disabilities. Mostly it helps in dynamic content change and development of advanced user interface controls with AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. DropDownButton provides built-in compliance with WAI-ARIA specifications. WAI-ARIA support is achieved through the attributes like aria-expanded, aria-owns and aria-haspopup applied for action item in DropDownButton. It helps by providing information about the widget for assistive technology in the screen readers. DropDownButton component contains the menu role and menuItem role.

Properties	Functionality
menu	Specified for an DropDownButton element.
menuItem	Specified for an action items.
aria-haspopup	Indicates the availability and type of interactive dropdown popup element.
aria-expanded	Indicates whether the current state of the dropdown popup can be expanded or collapsed.
aria-owns	Identifies elements to define a visual, functional, or contextual parent or child relationship between DOM(Document Object Model) elements where the hierarchy cannot be used to represent the relationship.

Keyboard interaction

Keyboard shortcuts	Actions
`Esc`	Closes the popup.
`Enter`	Opens the popup, or activates the highlighted item and closes the popup.
`Space`	Opens the popup.
`Up`	Navigates up or to the previous action item.
`Down`	Navigates down or to the next action item.
`Alt + Up Arrow`	Closes the popup.
`Alt + Down Arrow`	Opens the popup

index.js
index.html
styles.css
ej.base.enableRipple(true);

var items = [
    {
        text: 'Cut',
        iconCss: 'e-db-icons e-cut'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy',
        iconCss: 'e-icons e-copy'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paste',
        iconCss: 'e-db-icons e-paste'
    },
    {
        separator: true
    },
    {
        text: 'Font',
        iconCss: 'e-db-icons e-font'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paragraph',
        iconCss: 'e-db-icons e-paragraph'
    }];

var drpDownBtn = new ej.splitbuttons.DropDownButton({iconCss: 'e-icons e-edit', items: items}, '#element');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 DropDownButton</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <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-buttons/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-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.1.36/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <button id="element">Clipboard</button>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>
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@font-face {
  font-family: 'e-dropdown-btn';
  src:
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  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}
/* csslint ignore:stop */

.e-ddb-icons {
  font-family: 'e-dropdown-btn';
  font-style: normal;
  font-variant: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1;
  text-transform: none;
}

@font-face {
font-family: 'ddb-icons';
src:
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font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

.e-db-icons {
 font-family: 'ddb-icons' !important;
speak: none;
font-size: 55px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
line-height: 1;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

#container {
    visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

.e-edit::before {
  content: '\ea9a';
}

.e-cut::before {
  content: '\e700';
}

.e-copy::before {
  content: '\e70a';
}

.e-paste::before {
  content: '\e701';
}

.e-font::before {
  content: '\e702';
}

.e-paragraph::before {
  content: '\e703';
}

button {
  margin: 25px 5px 20px 20px;
}