Carbon Design System

AI label

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Last updated Sep 30, 2026
Carbon Core

    The AI label identifies AI in the UI, enabling transparency through visual recognition of the AI icon and triggering the explainability popover.

    AI label

    What Carbon provides

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

    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

    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.

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

    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

    Accessibility testing status

    Latest version: 1.114.0 | Framework: React (@carbon/react)

    ComponentAccessibility testStatusLink to source code
    AI labelTest(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.Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.
    Tests that ensure focus is properly managed, and all interactive functions of a component have a proper keyboard-accessible equivalent.Test data is either not available or not applicable for this component state.
    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.
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