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Icon WAI-ARIA Support

Out of the box, the Kendo UI for Angular Icon provides extensive accessibility support and enables users with disabilities to acquire complete control over its features.

The Icon is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and Section 508 requirements, follows the Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) best practices for implementing the keyboard navigation for its component role, provides options for managing its focus and is tested against the most popular screen readers.

WAI-ARIA

This section lists the selectors, attributes, and behavior patterns supported by the component and its composite elements, if any.

Selector	Attribute	Usage
`.k-icon, .k-svg-icon`	`aria-hidden=true`	Hides the icon element and all its children from assistive technologies.

Resources

MDN aria-hidden on icon example

Section 508

The Icon is fully compliant with the Section 508 requirements.

Testing

The Icon has been extensively tested automatically with axe-core and manually with the most popular screen readers.

To report any accessibility issues, contact the team through the Telerik Support System.

Screen Readers

The Icon has been tested with the following screen readers and browsers combinations:

Environment	Tool
Firefox	NVDA
Chrome	JAWS
Microsoft Edge	JAWS

For more details on how the Icon keyboard navigation works, refer to the Keyboard Navigation article.