keygen cannot have clickable ancestor button Web Standard

Description

The interactive element keygen must not appear as a descendant of the button element.

Help

An interactive control nested inside another interactive control is not voiced correctly by screen readers, and its name role and state is ignored.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• HTML5

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

Change history

• 5.25 Apr 2017 Removed in March 2017 release of W3 validator.
• 5.0 Oct 2012 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5Assert20keygen