role=link unnecessary for a, area and link with href Web Standard

Description

The link role is unnecessary for a, area and link elements with an href attribute.

Applicable standards

• 3.2
• HTML

Change history

• 2026.60 Apr 2026 Added mapping to ARIA 1.3.
• 5.20 Jan 2016 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5AriaUneededRoleForType-href-link