Accessibility in Blazor Accordion Component

22 Feb 20223 minutes to read

The Blazor Accordion component has been designed keeping in mind the WAI-ARIA specifications, by applying the prompt WAI-ARIA roles, states and properties along with the keyboard support. Thus, making it usable for people who use assistive WAI-ARIA Accessibility supports that is achieved through the attributes like aria-multiselectable, aria-disabled, aria-expanded, aria-selected and aria-hidden. It helps to provides information about the elements in a document for assistive technology. The component implements the keyboard navigation support by following the WAI-ARIA practices and tested in major screen readers.

ARIA attributes

Property	Functionality
role	Presentation: It indicates that the element is used to control presentation. This attribute is added to the Accordion element describing the actual role of the element. Heading: It identifies the element as a heading that serves as an Accordion header. This attribute is added to all the Accordion header elements describing the actual role of the element.
aria-multiselectable	It indicates the expand mode in the Accordion. Default value of this attribute is true. If expand mode value is changed as ‘single’, the attribute value changes to false.
aria-disabled	It indicates the disabled state of the Accordion and its items.
aria-expanded	It indicates the expand state of the Accordion Item. Default value of this attribute is false. If an item is expanded, the attribute value changes to ‘true’.
aria-selected	It indicates the Selection state of the Accordion Item. Default value of this attribute is false. If an item is expanded, the attribute value changes to ‘true’.
aria-hidden	It indicates the content visible state of the Accordion Item. Default value of this attribute is true. If an item content is visible, the attribute value changes to false.
aria-labelledby	Attribute is set to content (panel) and it points to the corresponding Accordion header.
aria-controls	Attribute is set to the header and it points to the corresponding Accordion content.
aria-level	It defines the hierarchical level of an Accordion element with its inner level.

Keyboard interaction

Keyboard navigation is enabled by default. The possible keys are:

Key	Description
Space or Enter	When the focus is on the Accordion header, clicking on the focused element makes the element to expand and collapse.
Down Arrow	Focus the next Accordion header.
Up Arrow	Focus the previous Accordion header.
Home	Focus the first Accordion header.
End	Focus the last Accordion header.