Building an Accessible Active Filter Bar in Blazor
Building an Accessible Active Filter Bar in Blazor In my thirty years of writing software, I've seen countless teams underestimate filtering. It always starts out looking dead simple. Slap a few dropdowns on a form, query the database, and you're done, right? But then your users hit a wall trying to answer one fundamental question: Why am I seeing these results? An approval queue, audit log, case-management list, or project dashboard can have several filters applied at once. If those filters are buried inside a collapsed form, users have no idea why a specific record is missing. Worse, they struggle to remove just one filter without nuking the entire search and starting over. This project demonstrates a reusable ActiveFilterBar component for Blazor WebAssembly. It displays exactly which filters are affecting a result list right now, lets users drop them individually, supports a one-click "clear all," and plays nicely with assistive technology. What the ...