WAI-ARIA: aria-disabled (State)

Description

Indicates that the element is perceivable but disabled, so it is not editable or otherwise operable. See related aria-hidden and aria-readonly.

For example, irrelevant options in a radio group may be disabled. Disabled elements might not receive focus from the tab order. For some disabled elements, applications might choose not to support navigation to descendants. In addition to setting the aria-disabled attribute, authors SHOULD change the appearance (grayed out, etc.) to indicate that the item has been disabled.

The state of being disabled applies to the current element and all focusable descendant elements of the element on which the aria-disabled attribute is applied.

Browser Compatibility For aria-disabled

	desktop						mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
ariaDisabled	ChromeFull support81	EdgeFull support81	FirefoxNo supportNo	Internet ExplorerNo supportNo	OperaFull support68	SafariFull support12.1	WebView AndroidFull support81	Chrome AndroidFull support81	Firefox for AndroidNo supportNo	Opera AndroidFull support58	Safari on iOSFull support12.2	Samsung InternetFull support13.0

Screen Reader Support For aria-disabled

Expectation	JAWS			Narrator	NVDA			Orca	TalkBack	VoiceOver (iOS)	VoiceOver (macOS)
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Edge	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Safari
MUST convey the “true” value	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported	supported

Example

Example coming soon

Characteristics

Used in roles

• All elements of the base markup

Values

• True/False
  Value representing either true or false. The default value for this value type is False, unless otherwise specified.
• False (default)
• The element is enabled.
• True:
  • The element and all focusable descendants are disabled and its value cannot be changed by the user

Semantic HTML

Use the HTML “disabled” attribute.

<form action=”/action_page.php”>
First name: <input type=”text” name=”fname”><br>
Last name: <input type=”text” name=”lname” disabled><br>
<input type=”submit” value=”Submit”>
</form>

Reference

• W3C (opens new window)
• A11Y Support
• MDN Web Docs