ARIA states and properties (attributes)

There are 4 categories of ARIA states and properties:

• aria-autocomplete
• aria-checked
• aria-disabled
• aria-errormessage
• aria-expanded
• aria-haspopup
• aria-hidden
• aria-invalid
• aria-label
• aria-level
• aria-modal
• aria-multiline
• aria-multiselectable
• aria-orientation
• aria-placeholder
• aria-pressed
• aria-readonly
• aria-required
• aria-selected
• aria-sort
• aria-valuemax
• aria-valuemin
• aria-valuenow
• aria-valuetext

• aria-busy
• aria-live
• aria-relevant
• aria-atomic

• aria-dropeffect
• aria-grabbed

• aria-activedescendant
• aria-colcount
• aria-colindex
• aria-colspan
• aria-controls
• aria-describedby
• aria-description
• aria-details
• aria-errormessage
• aria-flowto
• aria-labelledby
• aria-owns
• aria-posinset
• aria-rowcount
• aria-rowindex
• aria-rowspan
• aria-setsize

Some states and properties apply to all HTML elements regardless of whether an ARIA role is applied. These are defined as "Global" attributes. Global states and properties are supported by all roles and base markup elements.

Many of the above attributes are global, meaning they can be included on any element unless specifically disallowed:

• aria-atomic
• aria-busy
• aria-controls
• aria-current
• aria-describedby
• aria-description
• aria-details
• aria-disabled
• aria-dropeffect
• aria-errormessage
• aria-flowto
• aria-grabbed
• aria-haspopup
• aria-hidden
• aria-invalid
• aria-keyshortcuts
• aria-label
• aria-labelledby
• aria-live
• aria-owns
• aria-relevant
• aria-roledescription

By "specifically disallowed," all the above attributes are global except for the aria-label and aria-labelledby properties, which are not allowed on elements with role presentation nor its synonym none role.

The following are the reference pages covering the WAI-ARIA states and properties described on MDN.

ARIA: aria-activedescendant attribute

The aria-activedescendant attribute identifies the currently active element when focus is on a composite widget, combobox, textbox, group, or application.

ARIA: aria-atomic attribute

In ARIA live regions, the global aria-atomic attribute indicates whether assistive technologies such as a screen reader will present all, or only parts of, the changed region based on the change notifications defined by the aria-relevant attribute.

ARIA: aria-autocomplete attribute

The aria-autocomplete attribute indicates whether inputting text could trigger display of one or more predictions of the user's intended value for a combobox, searchbox, or textbox and specifies how predictions will be presented if they are made.

ARIA: aria-braillelabel attribute

The global aria-braillelabel property defines a string value that labels the current element, which is intended to be converted into Braille.

ARIA: aria-brailleroledescription attribute

The global aria-brailleroledescription attribute defines a human-readable, author-localized abbreviated description for the role of an element intended to be converted into Braille.

ARIA: aria-busy attribute

Used in ARIA live regions, the global aria-busy state indicates an element is being modified and that assistive technologies may want to wait until the changes are complete before informing the user about the update.

ARIA: aria-checked attribute

The aria-checked attribute indicates the current "checked" state of checkboxes, radio buttons, and other widgets.

ARIA: aria-colcount attribute

The aria-colcount attribute defines the total number of columns in a table, grid, or treegrid when not all columns are present in the DOM.

ARIA: aria-colindex attribute

The aria-colindex attribute defines an element's column index or position with respect to the total number of columns within a table, grid, or treegrid.

ARIA: aria-colindextext attribute

The aria-colindextext attribute defines a human-readable text alternative of the numeric aria-colindex.

ARIA: aria-colspan attribute

The aria-colspan attribute defines the number of columns spanned by a cell or gridcell within a table, grid, or treegrid.

ARIA: aria-controls attribute

The global aria-controls property identifies the element (or elements) whose contents or presence are controlled by the element on which this attribute is set.

ARIA: aria-current attribute

A non-null aria-current state on an element indicates that this element represents the current item within a container or set of related elements.

ARIA: aria-describedby attribute

The global aria-describedby attribute identifies the element (or elements) that describes the element on which the attribute is set.

ARIA: aria-description attribute

The global aria-description attribute defines a string value that describes or annotates the current element.

ARIA: aria-details attribute

The global aria-details attribute identifies the element (or elements) that provide additional information related to the object.

ARIA: aria-disabled attribute

The aria-disabled state indicates that the element is perceivable but disabled, so it is not editable or otherwise operable.

ARIA: aria-dropeffect attribute

The global aria-dropeffect attribute indicates what functions may be performed when a dragged object is released on the drop target.

ARIA: aria-errormessage attribute

The aria-errormessage attribute on an object identifies the element(s) that provides an error message for that object.

ARIA: aria-expanded attribute

The aria-expanded attribute is set on an element to indicate if a control is expanded or collapsed, and whether or not the controlled elements are displayed or hidden.

ARIA: aria-flowto attribute

The global aria-flowto attribute identifies the next element (or elements) in an alternate reading order of content. This allows assistive technology to override the general default of reading in document source order at the user's discretion.

ARIA: aria-grabbed attribute

The aria-grabbed state indicates an element's "grabbed" state in a drag-and-drop operation.

ARIA: aria-haspopup attribute

The aria-haspopup attribute indicates the availability and type of interactive popup element that can be triggered by the element on which the attribute is set.

ARIA: aria-hidden attribute

The aria-hidden state indicates whether the element is exposed to an accessibility API.

ARIA: aria-invalid attribute

The aria-invalid state indicates the entered value does not conform to the format expected by the application.

ARIA: aria-keyshortcuts attribute

The global aria-keyshortcuts attribute indicates keyboard shortcuts that an author has implemented to activate or give focus to an element.

ARIA: aria-label attribute

The aria-label attribute defines a string value that can be used to name an element, as long as the element's role does not prohibit naming.

ARIA: aria-labelledby attribute

The aria-labelledby attribute identifies the element (or elements) that labels the element it is applied to.

ARIA: aria-level attribute

The aria-level attribute defines the hierarchical level of an element within a structure.

ARIA: aria-live attribute

The global aria-live attribute indicates that an element will be updated, and describes the types of updates the user agents, assistive technologies, and user can expect from the live region.

ARIA: aria-modal attribute

The aria-modal attribute indicates whether an element is modal when displayed.

ARIA: aria-multiline attribute

The aria-multiline attribute indicates whether a textbox accepts multiple lines of input or only a single line.

ARIA: aria-multiselectable attribute

The aria-multiselectable attribute indicates that the user may select more than one item from the current selectable descendants.

ARIA: aria-orientation attribute

The aria-orientation attribute indicates whether the element's orientation is horizontal, vertical, or unknown/ambiguous.

ARIA: aria-owns attribute

The aria-owns attribute identifies an element (or elements) in order to define a visual, functional, or contextual relationship between a parent and its child elements when the DOM hierarchy cannot be used to represent the relationship.

ARIA: aria-placeholder attribute

The aria-placeholder attribute defines a short hint (a word or short phrase) intended to help the user with data entry when a form control has no value. The hint can be a sample value or a brief description of the expected format.

ARIA: aria-posinset attribute

The aria-posinset attribute defines an element's number or position in the current set of listitems or treeitems when not all items are present in the DOM.

ARIA: aria-pressed attribute

The aria-pressed attribute indicates the current "pressed" state of a toggle button.

ARIA: aria-readonly attribute

The aria-readonly attribute indicates that the element is not editable, but is otherwise operable.

ARIA: aria-relevant attribute

Used in ARIA live regions, the global aria-relevant attribute indicates what notifications the user agent will trigger when the accessibility tree within a live region is modified.

ARIA: aria-required attribute

The aria-required attribute indicates that user input is required on the element before a form may be submitted.

ARIA: aria-roledescription attribute

The aria-roledescription attribute defines a human-readable, author-localized description for the role of an element.

ARIA: aria-rowcount attribute

The aria-rowcount attribute defines the total number of rows in a table, grid, or treegrid.

ARIA: aria-rowindex attribute

The aria-rowindex attribute defines an element's position with respect to the total number of rows within a table, grid, or treegrid.

ARIA: aria-rowindextext attribute

The aria-rowindextext attribute defines a human-readable text alternative of aria-rowindex.

ARIA: aria-rowspan attribute

The aria-rowspan attribute defines the number of rows spanned by a cell or gridcell within a table, grid, or treegrid.

ARIA: aria-selected attribute

The aria-selected attribute indicates the current "selected" state of various widgets.

ARIA: aria-setsize attribute

The aria-setsize attribute defines the number of items in the current set of listitems or treeitems when not all items in the set are present in the DOM.

ARIA: aria-sort attribute

The aria-sort attribute indicates if items in a table or grid are sorted in ascending or descending order.

ARIA: aria-valuemax attribute

The aria-valuemax attribute defines the maximum allowed value for a range widget.

ARIA: aria-valuemin attribute

The aria-valuemin attribute defines the minimum allowed value for a range widget.

ARIA: aria-valuenow attribute

The aria-valuenow attribute defines the current value for a range widget.

ARIA: aria-valuetext attribute

The aria-valuetext attribute defines the human-readable text alternative of aria-valuenow for a range widget.

• Using ARIA: roles, states, and properties