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Draggable Accessibility

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draggable-accessibility

Draggable Accessibility is an Agent Skill for design published in the thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Use when reviewing templates, rendered HTML, or shared components related to Make drag and drop accessible. Validate the final browser-facing markup, not just the source framework abstraction.

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  3. Review files and risks before approving any action.
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Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/blob/HEAD/skills/draggable-accessibility/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/draggable-accessibility, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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Make drag and drop accessible

Drag and drop is mouse-dependent by default—keyboard and screen reader users are completely locked out without proper alternatives and ARIA announcements.

Quick Reference

  • Always provide keyboard alternatives to drag and drop
  • Use aria-grabbed and aria-dropeffect (or newer attributes)
  • Announce drag operations to screen readers via live regions
  • Support both mouse/touch and keyboard interaction patterns

Check

Verify drag and drop interfaces have keyboard alternatives, proper ARIA attributes, and live region announcements.

Fix

Implement keyboard alternatives (arrow keys, Enter/Space), aria-grabbed, aria-dropeffect, and status announcements.

Explain

Explain how accessible drag and drop implementations provide equivalent functionality for keyboard and screen reader users.

Code Review

Review templates, server-rendered HTML, and shared components that output markup related to Make drag and drop accessible. Flag exact elements, attributes, and routes where the rendered HTML violates the rule.

For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance, see references/rule.md.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/html/draggable-accessibility