svelte-accessible-dialog

An accessible dialog component for Svelte apps. Demo.

• Installation
• Usage
• Styling
• Props
• Accessibility
• Configuring webpack
• Tests
• LICENSE

Installation

npm install svelte-accessible-dialog

Usage

Basic

<script>
  import { DialogOverlay, DialogContent } from 'svelte-accessible-dialog';

  let isOpen;

  const open = () => {
    isOpen = true;
  };

  const close = () => {
    isOpen = false;
  };
</script>

<button on:click={open}>Open Dialog</button>

<DialogOverlay {isOpen} onDismiss={close}>
  <DialogContent aria-label="Announcement">
    <button on:click={close}>Close</button>
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Setting Initial Focus

By default, the first focusable element will receive focus when the dialog opens, but you can provide an element to focus instead.

<script>
  import { DialogOverlay, DialogContent } from 'svelte-accessible-dialog';

  let isOpen;
  let initialFocusElement;

  const open = () => {
    isOpen = true;
  };

  const close = () => {
    isOpen = false;
  };
</script>

<button on:click={open}>Open Dialog</button>

<DialogOverlay {isOpen} {initialFocusElement} onDismiss={close}>
  <DialogContent aria-label="Announcement">
    <button on:click={close}>Close</button>
    <label>
      Name: <input type="text" bind:this={initialFocusElement} />
    </label>
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Setting Return Focus

By default, the element that invoked the dialog will receive focus when the dialog closes, but you can provide an element to focus instead.

See the WAI-ARIA authoring practices for more detail about when you might want to do this.

<script>
  import { DialogOverlay, DialogContent } from 'svelte-accessible-dialog';

  let isOpen;
  let returnFocusElement;

  const open = () => {
    isOpen = true;
  };

  const close = () => {
    isOpen = false;
  };
</script>

<button on:click={open}>Open Dialog</button>
<button bind:this={returnFocusElement}>I focus on close</button>

<DialogOverlay {isOpen} {returnFocusElement} onDismiss={close}>
  <DialogContent aria-label="Announcement">
    <button on:click={close}>Close</button>
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Legacy Support for aria-modal

DialogContent has the aria-modal attribute. This indicates to screen readers that only content contained within the dialog should be accessible to the user. Modern screen readers respect this attribute, but you can enable a legacy workaround if you require deeper support.

See the WAI-ARIA authoring practices for more detail.

<script>
  import { DialogOverlay, DialogContent } from 'svelte-accessible-dialog';

  let isOpen;

  const open = () => {
    isOpen = true;
  };

  const close = () => {
    isOpen = false;
  };
</script>

<button on:click={open}>Open Dialog</button>

<DialogOverlay {isOpen} ariaModalLegacy={true} onDismiss={close}>
  <DialogContent aria-label="Announcement">
    <button on:click={close}>Close</button>
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Styling

:global

<style>
  :global([data-svelte-dialog-overlay].overlay) {
    z-index: 10;
  }

  :global([data-svelte-dialog-content].content) {
    border: 2px solid #000;
  }
</style>

<DialogOverlay class="overlay">
  <DialogContent class="content">
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Inline Styles

<DialogOverlay style="z-index: 10">
  <DialogContent style="border: 2px solid #000">
    <p>I am a dialog</p>
  </DialogContent>
</DialogOverlay>

Props

DialogOverlay

Must render DialogContent. Any props not listed below will be spread onto the underlying div.

DialogContent

Must be a child of DialogOverlay. Element props will be spread onto the underlying div.

Accessibility

WAI-ARIA: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/#dialog_modal

Keyboard Accessibility

Tabbable Elements

It's recommended to have at least one tabbable element in the DialogContent. Ideally, the first element in the dialog should be a close button. If no tabbable elements are found, the dialog content element itself will receive focus.

Hiding Page Content from Screen Readers

Until fairly recently, keeping a screen reader within an active dialog was difficult. A focus trap prevents focus from leaving a dialog, but does nothing to stop a wandering virtual cursor. A common solution to this problem was to set the aria-hidden and inert attributes on all elements outside of the active dialog.

ARIA 1.1 introduced the aria-modal attribute. aria-modal indicates to screen readers that only content contained within a dialog with aria-modal="true" should be accessible to the user. Modern screen readers respect this attribute, so svelte-accessible-dialog does not implement the legacy workaround by default.

If support for aria-modal is inadequate for your app, you can pass ariaModalLegacy={true} to DialogOverlay to enable the legacy workaround.

Labelling

A dialog needs to be properly labelled to provide context for users that rely on assistive technology. If a dialog is announced to the user without a label, it can be confusing and difficult to navigate.

There are two general approaches to labelling: aria-label and aria-labelledby. If the text is visible on the screen, you should provide the label's HTML element with a unique id attribute. That id is then given to an aria-labelledby attribute on the DialogContent. With this context, the screen reader will announce whatever text is nested inside that ID'd markup as the title for the Dialog.

If a design doesn't include a visible label on the screen, you need to provide an aria-label prop on the DialogContent instead.

aria-label

<DialogContent aria-label="Cookie notice">
  <p>We use cookies to improve your website experience</p>
  <button>Not interested</button>
  <button>Ok, thanks</button>
</DialogContent>

aria-labelledby

<DialogContent aria-labelledby="cookie-dialog-title">
  <h2 id="cookie-dialog-title">Cookie Notice</h2>
  <p>We use cookies to improve your website experience</p>
  <button>Not interested</button>
  <button>Ok, thanks</button>
</DialogContent>

Z-index

DialogOverlay does not set a z-index. It depends on DOM order to be on top of the page content (it's inserted at the end of the document when it's opened). If you're fighting z-index wars, make sure to add a z-index to DialogOverlay.

Configuring webpack

If you're using webpack with svelte-loader, make sure to add "svelte" to resolve.mainFields in your webpack config. This ensures that webpack imports the uncompiled components (src/index.js) rather than the compiled version (dist/index.mjs), which is more efficient.

If you're using Rollup with rollup-plugin-svelte, this will happen automatically.

Tests

Tests use Jest and svelte-testing-library.

git clone [email protected]:reecelucas/svelte-accessible-dialog.git
cd svelte-accessible-dialog
yarn
yarn test

LICENSE

MIT