Description A contextual popup that displays a description for an element. The tooltip typically becomes visible in response to a mouse hover, or after the owning element receives keyboard focus. In each of these cases, authors SHOULD display the tooltip after a short delay. The use of a WAI-ARIA tooltip is a supplement to the…
Description A type of list that may contain sub-level nested groups that can be collapsed and expanded. To be keyboard accessible, authors SHOULD manage focus of descendants for all instances of this role, as described in Managing Focus. Elements with the role tree have an implicit aria-orientation value of vertical. Role=Tree Example HTML Example In…
Description A grid whose rows can be expanded and collapsed in the same manner as for a tree. If aria-readonly is set on an element with role treegrid, user agents MUST propagate the value to all gridcell elements owned by the treegrid and expose the value in the accessibility API. An author MAY override the…
Description An option item of a tree. This is an element within a tree that may be expanded or collapsed if it contains a sub-level group of tree item elements. A collection of treeitem elements to be expanded and collapsed are enclosed in an element with the group role. Authors MUST ensure elements with role…
Description An interactive component of a graphical user interface (GUI). Widgets are discrete user interface objects with which the user can interact. Widget roles map to standard features in accessibility APIs. When the user navigates an element assigned any of the non-abstract subclass roles of widget, assistive technologies that typically intercept standard keyboard events SHOULD…
Description A browser or application window. Elements with this role have a window-like behavior in a graphical user interface (GUI) context, regardless of whether they are implemented as a native window in the operating system, or merely as a section of the document styled to look like a window. Note: In the description of this role,…
