diff --git a/api-generator/components/sidebar.js b/api-generator/components/sidebar.js
index 3904662742..14bf0d742e 100644
--- a/api-generator/components/sidebar.js
+++ b/api-generator/components/sidebar.js
@@ -46,12 +46,6 @@ const SidebarProps = [
         type: 'boolean',
         default: 'true',
         description: 'Whether to a modal layer behind the sidebar.'
-    },
-    {
-        name: 'ariaCloseLabel',
-        type: 'string',
-        default: 'close',
-        description: 'Aria label of the close icon.'
     }
 ];
 
diff --git a/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.d.ts b/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.d.ts
index e585da59ff..eb727804b1 100755
--- a/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.d.ts
+++ b/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.d.ts
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ export interface SidebarProps {
      * Default value is true.
      */
     modal?: boolean | undefined;
-    /**
-     * Aria label of the close icon.
-     * Default value is 'close'.
-     */
-    ariaCloseLabel?: string | undefined;
 }
 
 export interface SidebarSlots {
diff --git a/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.vue b/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.vue
index 0c4755f67c..2c521cc9ef 100755
--- a/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.vue
+++ b/src/components/sidebar/Sidebar.vue
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 <template>
     <Portal>
         <transition name="p-sidebar" @enter="onEnter" @leave="onLeave" @after-leave="onAfterLeave" appear>
-            <div v-if="visible" :ref="containerRef" :class="containerClass" role="complementary" :aria-modal="modal" v-bind="$attrs">
+            <div v-if="visible" :ref="containerRef"
+            v-focustrap :class="containerClass" role="complementary" :aria-modal="modal" :aria-labelledby="ariaId" v-bind="$attrs"  >
                 <div class="p-sidebar-header">
                     <div v-if="$slots.header" class="p-sidebar-header-content">
                         <slot name="header"></slot>
                     </div>
-                    <button v-if="showCloseIcon" v-ripple class="p-sidebar-close p-sidebar-icon p-link" @click="hide" :aria-label="ariaCloseLabel" type="button">
+                    <button v-if="showCloseIcon" v-ripple class="p-sidebar-close p-sidebar-icon p-link" @click="hide" :aria-label="closeAriaLabel" type="button">
                         <span :class="['p-sidebar-close-icon', closeIcon]" />
                     </button>
                 </div>
@@ -19,9 +20,10 @@
 </template>
 
 <script>
+import FocusTrap from 'primevue/focustrap';
 import Portal from 'primevue/portal';
 import Ripple from 'primevue/ripple';
-import { DomHandler, ZIndexUtils } from 'primevue/utils';
+import { DomHandler,UniqueComponentId, ZIndexUtils } from 'primevue/utils';
 
 export default {
     name: 'Sidebar',
@@ -60,16 +62,14 @@ export default {
             type: Boolean,
             default: true
         },
-        ariaCloseLabel: {
-            type: String,
-            default: 'close'
-        }
     },
     mask: null,
+    documentKeydownListener: null,
     maskClickListener: null,
     container: null,
     beforeUnmount() {
         this.destroyModal();
+        this.unbindDocumentKeyDownListener();
 
         if (this.container && this.autoZIndex) {
             ZIndexUtils.clear(this.container);
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ export default {
         },
         onEnter(el) {
             this.$emit('show');
+            this.bindDocumentKeyDownListener();
 
             if (this.autoZIndex) {
                 ZIndexUtils.set('modal', el, this.baseZIndex || this.$primevue.config.zIndex.modal);
@@ -101,6 +102,11 @@ export default {
                 this.disableModality();
             }
         },
+        onKeyDown(event) {
+            if (event.code === 'Escape' ) {
+                this.hide();
+            }
+        },
         onAfterLeave(el) {
             if (this.autoZIndex) {
                 ZIndexUtils.clear(el);
@@ -150,6 +156,18 @@ export default {
                 this.maskClickListener = null;
             }
         },
+        bindDocumentKeyDownListener() {
+            if (!this.documentKeydownListener) {
+                this.documentKeydownListener = this.onKeyDown.bind(this);
+                window.document.addEventListener('keydown', this.documentKeydownListener);
+            }
+        },
+        unbindDocumentKeyDownListener() {
+            if (this.documentKeydownListener) {
+                window.document.removeEventListener('keydown', this.documentKeydownListener);
+                this.documentKeydownListener = null;
+            }
+        },
         destroyModal() {
             if (this.mask) {
                 this.unbindMaskClickListener();
@@ -160,7 +178,8 @@ export default {
         },
         containerRef(el) {
             this.container = el;
-        }
+        },
+
     },
     computed: {
         containerClass() {
@@ -175,10 +194,17 @@ export default {
         },
         fullScreen() {
             return this.position === 'full';
-        }
+        },
+        closeAriaLabel() {
+            return this.$primevue.config.locale.aria ? this.$primevue.config.locale.aria.close : undefined;
+        },
+        ariaId() {
+            return UniqueComponentId();
+        },
     },
     directives: {
-        ripple: Ripple
+        ripple: Ripple,
+        focustrap: FocusTrap
     },
     components: {
         Portal: Portal
diff --git a/src/views/sidebar/SidebarDoc.vue b/src/views/sidebar/SidebarDoc.vue
index c416dae862..811381efaf 100755
--- a/src/views/sidebar/SidebarDoc.vue
+++ b/src/views/sidebar/SidebarDoc.vue
@@ -227,6 +227,80 @@ import Sidebar from 'primevue/sidebar';
             </table>
         </div>
 
+        <h5>Accessibility</h5>
+        <h6>Screen Reader</h6>
+        <p>
+            Sidebar component uses <i>complementary</i> role by default, since any attribute is passed to the root element aria role can be changed depending on your use case and additional attributes like <i>aria-labelledby</i> can be added. In
+            addition <i>aria-modal</i> is added since focus is kept within the sidebar when opened.
+        </p>
+        <p>It is recommended to use a trigger component that can be accessed with keyboard such as a button, if not adding <i>tabIndex</i> would be necessary.</p>
+        <p>Trigger element also requires <i>aria-expanded</i> and <i>aria-controls</i> to be handled explicitly.</p>
+
+        <pre v-code><code>
+&lt;Button label="Show" icon="pi pi-external-link" @click="visible = true" :aria-controls="visible ? 'sbar' : null" :aria-expanded="visible ? true : false" /&gt;
+
+&lt;Sidebar id="sbar" v-model="visible" role="region"&gt;
+    &lt;p&gt;Content&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/Sidebar&gt;
+
+</code></pre>
+
+        <h6>Overlay Keyboard Support</h6>
+        <div className="doc-tablewrapper">
+            <table className="doc-table">
+                <thead>
+                    <tr>
+                        <th>Key</th>
+                        <th>Function</th>
+                    </tr>
+                </thead>
+                <tbody>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <i>tab</i>
+                        </td>
+                        <td>Moves focus to the next the focusable element within the sidebar.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td><i>shift</i> + <i>tab</i></td>
+                        <td>Moves focus to the previous the focusable element within the sidebar.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <i>escape</i>
+                        </td>
+                        <td>Closes the dialog if <i>closeOnEscape</i> is true.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                </tbody>
+            </table>
+        </div>
+
+        <h6>Close Button Keyboard Support</h6>
+        <div className="doc-tablewrapper">
+            <table className="doc-table">
+                <thead>
+                    <tr>
+                        <th>Key</th>
+                        <th>Function</th>
+                    </tr>
+                </thead>
+                <tbody>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <i>enter</i>
+                        </td>
+                        <td>Closes the sidebar.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <i>space</i>
+                        </td>
+                        <td>Closes the sidebar.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                </tbody>
+            </table>
+        </div>
+
         <h5>Dependencies</h5>
         <p>None.</p>
     </AppDoc>