Accessibility in EJ2 JavaScript Split button control

10 May 20235 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. SplitButton 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 SplitButton. It helps the people with disabilities by providing information about the widget for assistive technology in the screen readers. SplitButton component contains the menuItem role.

Properties	Functionality
menuItem	This role will be specified for an action items.
aria-haspopup	Indicates the availability and type of interactive splitbutton popup element.
aria-expanded	Indicates whether the splitbutton popup can be expanded or collapsed, as well as indicates whether its current state is expanded or collapsed.
aria-owns	Identifies an elements in order to define a visual, functional, or contextual parent/child relationship between DOM elements where the DOM hierarchy cannot be used to represent the relationship.

Keyboard interaction

Keyboard shortcuts	Actions
`Esc`	Closes the opened 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-sb-icons e-cut'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy',
        iconCss: 'e-icons e-copy'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paste',
        iconCss: 'e-sb-icons e-paste'
    }];

//To place the icon in SplitButton.
var splitBtn = new ej.splitbuttons.SplitButton({iconCss: 'e-sb-icons e-paste', items: items}, '#iconbutton');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 SplitButton</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/ej2/23.2.4/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.2.4/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.2.4/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.2.4/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/23.2.4/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="iconbutton">Paste</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>
#container {
    visibility: hidden;
}

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

.e-split-btn-wrapper{
  margin: 20px 20px 5px 5px;
  }

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

.e-sb-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;
}

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

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

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