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Description Defines the total number of columns in a table, grid, or treegrid. See related aria-colindex. If all of the columns are present in the DOM, it is not necessary to set this attribute as the user agent can automatically calculate the total number of columns. However, if only a portion of the columns is…
Description Defines an element’s column index or position with respect to the total number of columns within a table, grid, or treegrid. See related aria-colcount and aria-colspan. If all of the columns are present in the DOM, it is not necessary to set this attribute as the user agent can automatically calculate the column index…
Description Defines the number of columns spanned by a cell or gridcell within a table, grid, or treegrid. See related aria-colindex and aria-rowspan. This attribute is intended for cells and gridcells which are not contained in a native table. When defining the column span of cells or gridcells in a native table, authors SHOULD use…
Description Identifies the element (or elements) whose contents or presence are controlled by the current element. See related aria-owns. For example: Screen Reader Support For aria-controls Expectation JAWS Narrator NVDA Orca TalkBack VoiceOver (iOS) VoiceOver (macOS) Chrome Edge Firefox Edge Chrome Edge Firefox Firefox Chrome Safari Safari SHOULD convey the presence of the aria-controls attribute…
Description Identifies the element (or elements) that describes the object. See related aria-labelledby. The aria-labelledby attribute is similar to the aria-describedby in that both reference other elements to calculate a text alternative, but a label should be concise, where a description is intended to provide more verbose information. The element or elements referenced by the…
Description [Deprecated in ARIA 1.1] In ARIA 1.1 the drag and drop attributes aria-grabbed and aria-dropeffect were slated to be deprecated. The idea was to use native accessibility API features for drag and drop instead. However, in practice, since the accessibility API features for accessible drag and drop still don’t exist and likely won’t for…
