ARIA role is invalid Web Standard

Description

Bad value for attribute role.

Help

The role attribute changes how screen readers voice content. Invalid values can result in content being misread.

Applicable standards

• 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

• 5.1 Jan 2013 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5Error-RnvErAval-role