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Blazor Breadcrumb Accessibility

Out of the box, the Telerik UI for Blazor Breadcrumb provides extensive accessibility support and enables users with disabilities to acquire complete control over its features.

The Breadcrumb is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and Section 508 requirements, follows the Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) best practices for implementing the keyboard navigation for its component role, provides options for managing its focus and is tested against the most popular screen readers.

WAI-ARIA

This section lists the selectors, attributes, and behavior patterns supported by the component and its composite elements, if any.

The Breadcrumb component renders the semantic nav html element that automatically associated navigation role.

Selector Attribute Usage
.k-breadcrumb aria-label=Breadcrumb Indicates the type of navigation provided by the nav element.
.k-breadcrumb-item .k-breadcrumb-link,.k-breadcrumb-item .k-breadcrumb-root-link role=link or nodeName=a The breadcrumb item should render either an <a> element, or should have role="link" assigned.
.k-breadcrumb-last-item .k-breadcrumb-link,.k-breadcrumb-last-item .k-breadcrumb-root-link aria-current=page The last breadcrumb item that points to the active page should have aria-current="page".
.k-breadcrumb-last-item .k-breadcrumb-link aria-disabled=true Indicates that the last breadcrumb item is disabled.
.k-breadcrumb-delimiter-icon aria-hidden=true The breadcrumb delimiter icon should not be accessed through assistive technology.

Resources

ARIA practices: BreadCrumb Example

Section 508

The Breadcrumb is fully compliant with the Section 508 requirements.

Testing

The Breadcrumb has been extensively tested automatically with axe-core and manually with the most popular screen readers.

To report any accessibility issues, contact the team through the Telerik Support System.

Screen Readers

The Breadcrumb has been tested with the following screen readers and browsers combinations:

Environment Tool
Firefox NVDA
Chrome JAWS
Microsoft Edge JAWS

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