Carbon Design System

No accessibility annotations are needed for AI labels, but keep these considerations in mind if you are modifying Carbon or creating a custom component.

What Carbon provides
Development considerations

What Carbon provides

Keyboard interactions

The AI labels is the trigger button. The AI label is in the tab order and is activated by pressing

Enter

Space

. The activation toggles the explainability popover open and closed, and focus remains on the trigger.

When the popover contains interactive elements, pressing

Tab

will move focus to the first component in the popover. When the popover only has non-interactive text, or when the focus is on the last component in the popover, pressing

Tab

will close the popover and move focus to the next tab stop on the page. Pressing

Esc

in an open popover closes it and returns focus to the trigger.

Example of AI label keyboard interaction

The AI label icon button that triggers the popover is in the page tab order, as are interactive elements inside an open popover.

Input interactions

The AI label can appear inside user inputs, where it adds an additional tab stop. For example, a text input will take focus as normal (the existing value will be selected), and then the AI label will take a second tab stop. If the user clears the existing AI-supplied value, (with the

Delete

key), then the AI label becomes a

revert

icon, which on activation will restore the AI-supplied value in the input.

The AI label inside the input takes its own tab stop, and still toggles the explainability popover on and off.

The AI label button is a second tab stop after the inital tab stop for the input.

The revert button replaces the AI label, but otherwise the keyboard navigation and operation is similar.

The AI label changes to a “revert” symbol if a user modifies the input value. Activating “revert” restores the prior AI value.

Development considerations

Keep these considerations in mind if you are modifying Carbon or creating a custom component.

The icon button has
```
aria-label="AI - Show information"
```
.
The button uses
```
aria-expanded
```
to set toggletip visibility and
```
aria-controls
```
to handle navigation to the content.

Accessibility testing status
For every latest release, Carbon runs tests on all components to meet the accessibility requirements. These different statuses report the work that Carbon has done in the back end. These tests appear only when the components are stable.

Latest version: | Framework: React (@carbon/react)

Component	Accessibility test	Status	Link to source code
AI label	Test(s) that ensure the initial render state of a component is accessible.	Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.	GitHub link
	Tests that ensure additional states of the component are accessible. This could be interactive states of a component or its multiple variants.	Automated or manual testing has been temporarily deferred.
	Tests that ensure focus is properly managed, and all interactive functions of a component have a proper keyboard-accessible equivalent.	Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.
	This manual testing ensures that the visual information on the screen is properly conveyed and read correctly by screen readers such as JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.	A human has manually tested this component, e.g. screen reader testing.

AI label

What Carbon provides

Keyboard interactions

Input interactions

Development considerations

Accessibility testing statusFor every latest release, Carbon runs tests on all components to meet the accessibility requirements. These different statuses report the work that Carbon has done in the back end. These tests appear only when the components are stable.

Accessibility testing status
For every latest release, Carbon runs tests on all components to meet the accessibility requirements. These different statuses report the work that Carbon has done in the back end. These tests appear only when the components are stable.