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Icon Table of Contents Accessibility support ARIA enhancements External ARIA provided by the aria property: ARIAUsagearia-labelDefines a string value that labels the element (through the alt attribute). Development considerations Hiding an icon from assistive technologies Sometimes icons are used purely for decorative purposes and do not convey any additional information. In these cases, it is important to hide the icon from assistive technologies. This can be achieved by setting the aria-hidden attribute directly on the Icon component. 
<p-icon aria-hidden="true" name="phone" /><p-text>+49 123 456 7890</p-text>
Tests Automated TechnologySupportAXE-Core (WCAG 2.2 AA, Best-Practice) (WCAG 2.2 AA, Best-Practice)✅High-Contrast Mode (light/dark)✅Text-Zoom (200%)✅ Manual TechnologySupportScreen 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%