Accessibility in React Dropdown Menu component

02 Dec 2022 / 2 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. 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 the people with disabilities 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	This role will be specified for an DropDownButton element.
menuItem	This role will be specified for an action items.
aria-haspopup	Indicates the availability and type of interactive dropdown popup element.
aria-expanded	Indicates whether the dropdown 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

Source

Preview

app.jsx

index.html

styles.css

app.tsx

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { DropDownButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
// To render DropDownButton.
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        this.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'
            }
        ];
    }
    render() {
        return (<div>
         <DropDownButtonComponent items={this.items} iconCss='e-icons e-edit'> Edit </DropDownButtonComponent>
      </div>);
    }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

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

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React DropDownButton</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.3.56/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.3.56/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.3.56/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.3.56/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
	<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='button'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</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;
}

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { DropDownButtonComponent, ItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-splitbuttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

// To render DropDownButton.
class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {

  public items: ItemModel[] = [
    {
        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'
    }];

  public render() {
    return (
      <div>
         <DropDownButtonComponent items = {this.items} iconCss= 'e-icons e-edit'> Edit </DropDownButtonComponent>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('button'));

Contents

ARIA attributes
Keyboard interaction

Contents

ARIA attributes
Keyboard interaction

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