role=listbox must contain role=option Web Standard

Description

Elements with role=listbox must contain or own an element with role=option and must not contain elements with other roles.

Applicable standards

• ACT-Rules bc4a75
• ARIA 1.2
• WCAG 2.0 1.3.1
• WCAG 2.1 1.3.1
• Section 508 (2017) 1.3.1
• HTML5

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

Change history

• 6.47 Dec 2022 Now checks that only allowed child roles are present.
• 5.37 May 2020 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5AriaRequiredChildRole-listbox