All of the Ignite UI for jQuery™ controls and components comply with Section 508, Subpart 1194.22 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Table 1 contains the specific rules of Subpart 1194.22 that pertain to the control. Also detailed is how the igCheckboxEditor control complies with each rule.
To meet the requirements each accessibility rule, in some cases, you may need to interact with the control by to setting a specific property, but in other cases the control does the work for you.
Note: As jQuery controls are client-only, some of the rules are not supported and are marked as limitations.
Table 1: Section 508 compliance description
| Rules | How We Comply with Rules |
|---|---|
| (c) | Using client side events, the user can change attributes of any of the control's DOM element reflecting the current state. |
| (d) | The control's markup is readable without the associated style sheet because it’s a client-side control and depends on the CSS rules. |
| (l) | When the control's scripts are changing the page markup, the new created content complies with the screen reader due to the attributes described in rule (c). |
| (n) |
When igCheckboxEditor is on focus(edit mode) keyboard navigation is availabe. See the
igCheckboxEditor Overview topic for a detailed list of available key operations and their respective action.
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* Descriptive label is not provided for the editor input.
In 2014 the W3C finalized their WAI-ARIA specification which defined how to design Web content and Web applications to be more accessible to users with disabilities. The igCheckboxEditor has been designed so that it follows these guidelines.
The list below provides details about what changes have been made to the igCheckboxEditor to support WAI-ARIA. Please note that no special settings are needed to leverage these changes, as they are all enabled by default.
igCheckboxEditor will render a tabindex attribute with a corresponding value from the tabindex option of the igCheckboxEditor, which allows access to the elements through the use of Tab and Shift+Tab keys.Note: If the tabindex option is not specified - tabindex equal to -1 is rendered as an attribute to the input element.
The igCheckboxEditor is decorated with a checkbox role.
The igCheckboxEditor is decorated with a aria-checked attribute with the corresponding value depending on checked state
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