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Spinner Table of Contents Accessibility support ARIA enhancements External ARIA provided by the aria property: ARIAUsagearia-labelDefines a string value that labels the live region. Internal ARIA that is managed by the component: ARIAUsagerole="alert"Provided message is announced. Development considerations Announcing loading messages To provide feedback to screen reader users, it's mandatory to announce the loading state of the spinner. This can be achieved by the following: Pre-rendering of the the component in the DOM. Providing a meaningful loading state message through the aria property, e.g. aria="{ 'aria-label': 'Start/End loading content'}". Tests Automated TechnologySupportAXE-Core (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%