The table in this section shows how HTML5 elements and element types map to Microsoft Active Accessibility roles, and to Microsoft UI Automation control types and control patterns.
Note The following table shows the default Microsoft Active Accessibility roles and UI Automation control types. If an element includes an Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) role attribute, it overrides the defaults.
| UIA control patterns | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Element | Element type | MSAA role | UIA control type | Supported | Unsupported |
| AUDIO, VIDEO | Not applicable | ROLE_SYSTEM_GROUPING | Group | ||
| Subelements of AUDIO/VIDEO (media controls) | buttons | ROLE_SYSTEM_PUSHBUTTON | Button | Invoke | Toggle |
| text | ROLE_SYSTEM_STATICTEXT | Text | |||
| sliders | ROLE_SYSTEM_SLIDER | Slider | |||
| CANVAS | Not applicable | ROLE_SYSTEM_GRAPHIC | Image | ||
| INPUT | htmlInputRange | ROLE_SYSTEM_SLIDER | Slider | RangeValue | |
|
htmlInputUrl htmlInputEmail htmlInputNumber htmlInputTel htmlInputSearch | ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT | Edit | Value, Text | Invoke, Selection | |
| PROGRESS | Not applicable | ROLE_SYSTEM_PROGRESSBAR | ProgressBar | RangeValue | |
| SVG | anchor | ROLE_SYSTEM_LINK | Hyperlink | Invoke | |
|
text tspan textpath | ROLE_SYSTEM_TEXT | Text | |||
| all other types | ROLE_SYSTEM_GRAPHIC | Image | |||
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