Discussion - Adding Aria compatibility & improving accessibility

[rvanbaalen]

Opening this tread to discuss Aria compatibility / accessibility in general with @angular-ui/bootstrap and it's community. I'll also reference all Aria related PR's and issues in here.

Related issues: #494, #2249, #2303, #2688, #3095, #3199, #3253, #3264, #3474

Related PR's: #1714, #2174, #3329, #2316, #2515, #3329

Resources (curated list)

• http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Accessibility/ARIA
• https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/accessibility
• http://a11yproject.com/checklist.html
• http://oaa-accessibility.org
• https://medium.com/@cironunesdev/angularjs-cares-about-accessibility-607785648c58
• Fully accessible datepicker
• https://www.marcozehe.de/2015/02/05/advanced-aria-tip-2-accessible-modal-dialogs/
• https://egghead.io/lessons/angularjs-using-ng-aria-to-automatically-improve-your-angularjs-accessibility
• http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/04/8-reasons-to-embrace-website-accessibility/

Tools

• Automated Accessibility testing

Milestone 1.1

Everything accessibility and ARIA related will be covered in milestone v1.1.0.

[Tobino]

Is it possible to get a label "accessibility"?
Like twbs/bootstrap

[rvanbaalen]

@Tobino your prayers are heard 😉 type: accessibility tag is created

[icfantv]

Closing in favor of #4772.

[icfantv]

Closing in favor of #4772.