WAI-ARIA

Description A document structural element. Roles for document structure support the accessibility of dynamic web content by helping assistive technologies determine active content versus static document content. Structural roles by themselves do not all map to accessibility APIs, but are used to create widget roles or assist content adaptation for assistive technologies. Note: structure is an…

Description A grouping label providing a mechanism for selecting the tab content that is to be rendered to the user. If a tabpanel or item in a tabpanel has focus, the associated tab is the currently active tab in the tablist, as defined in Managing Focus. tablist elements, which contain a set of associated tab…

Description A list of tab elements, which are references to tabpanel elements. To be keyboard accessible, authors SHOULD manage focus of descendants for all instances of this role, as described in Managing Focus. For a single-selectable tablist, authors SHOULD hide other tabpanel elements from the user until the user selects the tab associated with that…

Description A container for the resources associated with a tab, where each tab is contained in a tablist. Authors SHOULD associate a tabpanel element with its tab, either by using the aria-controls attribute on the tab to reference the tab panel, or by using the aria-labelledby attribute on the tab panel to reference the tab….

Description New in ARIA 1.1 A word or phrase with a corresponding definition. See related definition.The term role is used to explicitly identify a word or phrase for which a definition has been provided by the author or is expected to be provided by the user. Authors SHOULD NOT use the term role on interactive…

Description A type of input that allows free-form text as its value. If the aria-multiline attribute is true, the widget accepts line breaks within the input, as in an HTML textarea. Otherwise, this is a simple text box. The intended use is for languages that do not have a text input element, or cases in…