Rule: Unsupported and deprecated ARIA attributes.

Rule ID Widget 14
Conformance Required
Definition ARIA attributes that are unsupported or deprecated for a role should be removed.
Purpose
  • Not all ARIA properties and states are useful on every ARIA role and starting with ARIA 1.2 certain states and properties that were once considered global have been deprecated on specific roles.
  • The ARIA in HTML specification defines implicit roles for most HTML elememnts.
  • The same ARIA property and state restrictions on explicit roles apply to implicit roles.
Conformance Required
WCAG Success Criteria

Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing

Rule Category ARIA Widgets
Rule Scope Element
Techniques
  • Remove the unsupported or deprecated ARIA attribute from the element.
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