Accessibility
The DropDownButton is accessible by screen readers and provides full WAI-ARIA support.
WAI-ARIA Support
The DropDownButton uses the role="menu", aria-haspopup="true", aria-expanded, aria-owns and aria-activedescendant attributes. The items in the popup are marked with role="menuitem".
The DropDownButton also follows the WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing the keyboard navigation for its component role and is tested against the popular screen readers.
Section 508
The DropDownButton is compliant with the Section 508 requirements.
Limitations
The following issues are related to the WAI-ARIA support limitations of browsers and screen readers:
- Internet Explorer 10 and 11 work best with the Jaws screen reader. Other readers are not supported very well. For more information, refer to issue 817699.
- Microsoft Edge works best with Microsoft Narrator screen reader. For more information, refer to issue 8571350.