Make drag and drop accessible

SkillWeb & browsing

Lets your agent check that drag-and-drop HTML components are accessible by reviewing the final rendered markup.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

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Then ask your AI: use the Make drag and drop accessible skill

About this capability

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.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/draggable-accessibility/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
draggable-accessibility
Source
github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist