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AI label

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

Keyboard interactions

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

Enter
or 
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.
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