Angular ARIA Toolbar: Build Accessible Toolbars with Keyboard Navigation

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Toolbar: The frequent words we are hearing when we develop a layout or landing screen for an application.

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What is a toolbar?

In Simply we can understand it as a collection of commonly used function buttons or controls represented in a compactly visual form.

The toolbar is commonly a subset of functions found in a menubar as a way to reduce user effort.

Behaviour and criteria:

1. Orientation:

while define a element with the role toolbar you need to define the aria-orientation. The purpose of the orientation is to enable the focus management by controlling the keyboard interactions.

If the orientation is horizontal, the left arrow and the right arrow should be used to navigate between the controls within a toobar.

If the orientation is vertical, the up arrow and the down arrow should be used to navigate between the controls within a toolbar.

Note : Avoid including controls whose operation requires arrow keys used for toolbar navigation. If you must include…