Accessibility in React Switch component

30 Jan 20234 minutes to read

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.

Switch provides built-in compliance with WAI-ARIA specifications. WAI-ARIA support is achieved through the attributes like aria-checked and aria-disabled. It helps the people with disabilities by providing information about the widget for assistive technology in the screen readers, such as screen readers.

Properties	Functionality
role	Indicates the switch component.
aria-checked	Indicates whether the input is checked, unchecked.
aria-disabled	Indicates that the element is perceivable but disabled, so it is not editable or otherwise operable.

Keyboard interaction

Keyboard shortcuts	Actions
Space	When the switch has focus, pressing the Space key changes the state of the switch.

app.jsx

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { SwitchComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
// To render Switch.
function App() {
    return (<table className='size'>
            <tr>
                <td className='lSize'>Checked</td>
                <td>
                    <SwitchComponent checked={true}/>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td className='lSize'>Unchecked</td>
                <td>
                    <SwitchComponent />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('switch'));

app.tsx

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { SwitchComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

// To render Switch.
function App() {
    return (
        <table className='size'>
            <tr>
                <td className='lSize'>Checked</td>
                <td>
                    <SwitchComponent checked={true} />
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td className='lSize'>Unchecked</td>
                <td>
                    <SwitchComponent />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('switch'));