Broken aria-activedescendant ID reference Web Standard

Description

The value of aria-activedescendant must either refer to a descendant element, or be accompanied by an aria-owns attribute.

Applicable standards

• ARIA 1.2 8.6.1
• WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• HTML5

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

Change history

• 6.50 Oct 2023 Now triggers ARIA 1.2 conformance error.
• 5.8 Mar 2015 Fixed false positive.
• 5.2 May 2013 Now allows association via aria-owns.
• 5.0 Oct 2012 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5AriaActiveDescendant