ARIA Roles and Attributes

Reverb 2.0 applies ARIA roles and attributes to interactive elements throughout the interface to ensure proper announcement by screen readers.

Interactive Elements

Toggle Buttons

The Was This Helpful? feedback buttons use the aria-pressed attribute to communicate their toggle state. When a user activates the thumbs up or thumbs down button, the pressed state is announced to screen reader users.

Expandable Controls

Drop-down menus and collapsible sections use aria-expanded to indicate whether content is currently shown or hidden. The search scope dropdown synchronizes this state with its visual appearance.

Embedded Media

Video and other embedded <object> elements include role="application" to indicate that custom keyboard handling applies within the embedded content.

Localized ARIA Labels

All interactive elements include descriptive ARIA labels that are announced by screen readers. These labels are localized and available in 25 languages:

English (default)
Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Note: ARIA labels are defined in the locales.xml file within the Reverb format. Custom labels can be created by overriding this file in your project.

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Last modified date: 01/21/2026