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Button Table of Contents Accessibility support Keyboard Key / stateFunctionTab, Shift-TabMoves focus to the next (or previous) focusable element.Enter, SpaceActivates the button.disabledButton still focusable. ARIA enhancements External ARIA provided by the aria property: ARIAUsagearia-labelDefines a string value that labels the interactive element.aria-expandedExposes a visual state (e.g. expanded/collapsed) of another element.aria-pressedExposes the pressed state of a toggle button.aria-haspopupDefines that the button opens a popup (e.g. dialog). It can be used in combination with aria-expanded to indicate the state of the popup. Internal ARIA that is managed by the component: ARIAUsagearia-disabled="true"When disabled prop is set, this ARIA attribute is set on the button element.role="status"When loading prop is set, the component announces the loading state (start and finish).aria-hidden="true"When the icon prop is set, the icon is hidden from the screen reader. Limitations Due to the nature of Web Components and shadowDOM, there are limitations in the usage of some ARIA attributes if they try to set relationship between elements in different shadowDOM's or shadowDOM/lightDOM combinations. ARIASupportaria-labelledby🚫aria-describedby🚫aria-owns🚫aria-controls🚫aria-activedescendant🚫 Development considerations Labelling If the text of a button does not clearly indicate what the button's behavior is, add a brief, descriptive label using the aria property with the aria-label value to provide more context for e.g. screen reader users. Phrases like "Add", "Detail" or "Show" can be unclear when read out of context by a screen reader. In such instances, provide an alternative text that offers more detailed information, such as "Add item XYZ to shopping cart" or "Details of product XYZ." Tests Automated TechnologySupportAXE-Core (WCAG 2.2 AA, Best-Practice)✅High-Contrast Mode (light/dark)🟠(Currently no outline visible in variant "ghost".)Text-Zoom (200%)✅ Manual TechnologySupportKeyboard✅Screen reader (VoiceOver, NVDA)✅
Global settingsThemeChanges the theme of the application and any Porsche Design System component. It's possible to choose between forced theme light and dark. It's also possible to use auto, which applies light or dark theme depending on the operating system settings automatically.LightDarkAuto (sync with operating system)DirectionChanges the direction of HTML elements, mostly used on<html> tag to support languages which are read from right to left like e.g. Arabic.LTR (left-to-right)RTL (right-to-left)AutoText ZoomChanges the text size and values with unit rem or em relatively. This setting can be defined in browser settings for any website or by an application itself on<html> tag. To achieve WCAG 2.2 AA compliance it's obligatory to support text zoom up to at least 200%.100%130%150%200%