Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children

For each role, WAI-ARIA explicitly defines which child and parent roles are allowable and/or required. ARIA roles missing required child roles will not be able to perform the accessibility functions intended by the developer.

Assistive technology needs to convey the context to the user. For example, in a treeitem, it is important to know the parent (container), item, or siblings in the folder. This can be done in two ways:

Fixing the problem

Ensure elements including explicit or implicit ARIA roles include required children elements.

The following attribute values indicate relationships between element that cannot be readily determined from the document structure. The relationships are linked to characteristics tables that list explicit and implicit role attribute values as well as role attribute values inherited by nested children elements.

• aria-activedescendant
• aria-controls
• aria-describedby
• aria-flowto
• aria-labelledby
• aria-owns
• aria-posinset
• aria-setsize
• role="combobox"

For similar (opposite) information, refer to Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents.