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WCAG, Section 508, WAI-ARIA

There are several standards, policies and principles that govern how accessible applications and components are created. This article offers an overview of them. For a list of the accessibility compliance levels support provided by the Telerik UI for Blazor components see the [Telerik UI for Blazor Accessibility Compliance]({%slug accessibility-compliance%}) article.

In this article you will find information on the general topics of accessibility:

Standards and Policies

Accessible websites and applications normally comply with some or all of the following standards:

Section 508

Since 1998, Section 508 is part of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 508 represents a set of accessibility standards which were defined by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and which initially applied to Federal agencies only with the aim to ensure that their electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities.

In 2017, Section 508 was reorganized to meet and reflect recent communication technology innovations and nowadays the Section 508 guidelines impact not only all U.S. Federal agencies, but also affect any company which does business with a Federal agency. Such companies include vendors, private contractors, financial industry, healthcare and legal organizations, and partners of those agencies which operate in the United States or abroad.

For more information, refer to:

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which are set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) define recommendations for making web content accessible to people with physical and cognitive disabilities. WCAG defines accessibility principles with their respective success criteria. Depending on the implemented success criteria by a web application, the WCAG provide the A, AA, and AAA levels of accessibility conformance.

For more information, refer to:

Technical Specifications

WAI-ARIA

WAI-ARIA is a set of technical specifications which were developed by the W3C and which provide the semantics for the assistive technologies to access and interpret web content and web applications. The WAI-ARIA recommendations (standards) divide the semantics into roles and into states and properties which those roles support. For example, a checkbox role supports the aria-checked state which indicates whether a checkbox, radio button, or a similar UI element is checked.

The WAI-ARIA framework targets web developers who create web applications by using AJAX, scripting, and other rich application techniques.

For more information, refer to:

Keyboard Navigation

By default, users can only navigate to links, buttons, and form controls with a keyboard. The navigation order in which interactive items receive keyboard focus has to be logical and intuitive. Generally, keyboard navigation logic needs to follow the visual horizontal and vertical flow of the page. For example, left to right and top to bottom, header first followed by the main and then the page navigation.

Keyboard accessibility is a category under the WCAG Operable principle.

In WCAG 2.2, the keyboard accessible category provides the following success criteria:

See the [Keyboard Support in Telerik UI for Blazor]({%slug accessibility-keyboard-navigation%}) article for more details on using the Telerik components with the keyboard.

The described level of compliance in the table below is achievable with the [Ocean Blue Sass Swatch]({%slug themes-accessibility-swatch%}) and the Default Ocean Blue A11Y.

Accessibility Compliance Components Table

The following table lists the Section 508 and WCAG 2 compliance levels of support for the Blazor UI components.

Component 508 WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Example Accessibility Documentation
AutoComplete Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug autocomplete-wai-aria-support%})
Barcodes No n/a n/a n/a
Breadcrumb Yes AAA Demo [Documentation]({%slug breadcrumb-wai-aria-support%})
Button Yes AAA Demo [Documentation]({%slug button-wai-aria-support%})
ButtonGroup Yes AAA Demo [Documentation]({%slug buttongroup-wai-aria-support%})
Calendar Yes AAA Demo [Documentation]({%slug calendar-wai-aria-support%})
Card No n/a n/a n/a
Carousel Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug carousel-wai-aria-support%})
Charts Yes AA Demo Documentation
CheckBox Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug checkbox-wai-aria-support%})
ChunkProgressBar Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug chunkprogressbar-wai-aria-support%})
ColorGradient Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug colorgradient-wai-aria-support%})
ColorPalette Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug colorpalette-wai-aria-support%})
ColorPicker Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug colorpicker-wai-aria-support%})
ComboBox Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug combobox-wai-aria-support%})
Context Menu Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug contextmenu-wai-aria-support%})
Date Input Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug dateinput-wai-aria-support%})
Date Picker Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug datepicker-wai-aria-support%})
DateRange Picker Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug daterangepicker-wai-aria-support%})
DateTime Picker Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug datetimepicker-wai-aria-support%})
Dialog Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug dialog-wai-aria-support%})
Drawer Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug drawer-wai-aria-support%})
DropDownList Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug dropdownlist-wai-aria-support%})
Editor Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug editor-wai-aria-support%})
FileManager No n/a n/a n/a
FileSelect No n/a n/a n/a
Filter Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug filter-wai-aria-support%})
FlatColorPicker Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug flatcolorpicker-wai-aria-support%})
FloatingLabel No n/a n/a n/a
Form No n/a n/a n/a
Gantt Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug gantt-wai-aria-support%})
Gauges No n/a n/a n/a
Grid Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug grid-wai-aria-support%})
Grid Layout No n/a n/a n/a
ListView Yes AAA Demo [Documentation]({%slug listview-wai-aria-support%})
Loader No n/a n/a n/a
LoaderContainer No n/a n/a n/a
Map No n/a n/a n/a
MaskedTextbox Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug maskedtextbox-wai-aria-support%})
MediaQuery No n/a n/a n/a
Menu Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug menu-wai-aria-support%})
MultiColumnComboBox No n/a n/a n/a
MultiSelect Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug multiselect-wai-aria-support%})
Notification Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug notification-wai-aria-support%})
NumericTextbox Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug numerictextbox-wai-aria-support%})
Pager Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug pager-wai-aria-support%})
PanelBar No n/a n/a n/a
PDF Viewer No n/a n/a n/a
ProgressBar Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug progressbar-wai-aria-support%})
RadioGroup Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug radiogroup-wai-aria-support%})
Range Slider Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug rangeslider-wai-aria-support%})
Scheduler Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug scheduler-wai-aria-support%})
Signature Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug signature-wai-aria-support%})
Skeleton No n/a n/a n/a
Slider Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug slider-wai-aria-support%})
SplitButton Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug splitbutton-wai-aria-support%})
Splitter Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug splitter-wai-aria-support%})
Stack Layout No n/a n/a n/a
Stepper Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug stepper-wai-aria-support%})
Stock Chart No n/a n/a n/a
Switch Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug switch-wai-aria-support%})
TabStrip Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug tabstrip-wai-aria-support%})
TextArea Yes AAA n/a [Documentation]({%slug textarea-wai-aria-support%})
TextBox Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug textbox-wai-aria-support%})
TileLayout Yes AAA n/a [Documentation]({%slug tilelayout-wai-aria-support%})
TimePicker Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug timepicker-wai-aria-support%})
ToggleButton Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug togglebutton-wai-aria-support%})
ToolBar Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug toolbar-wai-aria-support%})
Tooltip Yes AA n/a [Documentation]({%slug tooltip-wai-aria-support%})
TreeList No n/a n/a n/a
TreeView Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug treeview-wai-aria-support%})
Upload No n/a n/a n/a
Window Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug window-wai-aria-support%})
Wizard Yes AA Demo [Documentation]({%slug wizard-wai-aria-support%})

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