Clickable control with no role Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Clickable controls should have an ARIA role.

Help

Controls that respond to clicks should be given an ARIA role such as role=button or role=link. div span and a elements without an href attribute have no semantic role.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 F54 (Success Criteria: 2.1.1 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 F54 (Success Criteria: 2.1.1 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) F54 (Success Criteria: 2.1.1 level A)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 5.37 May 2020 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccHtmlClickableNoRole