ARIA global property used on prohibited role Web Standard

Description

Cannot use aria-roledescription or aria-brailleroledescription on elements and roles that prohibit these properties.

Help

Elements with an explict role=generic or elements like div and span with an implicit role of generic cannot specify the following properties: aria-roledescription or aria-brailleroledescription.

Applicable standards

• kb1m8s
• 5.2.5
• HTML

Change history

• 2026.60 Apr 2026 Added for new ACT Rule.

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

Rule ID: W3cAriaGlobalRoleProhibited