role=tablist must contain role=tab Web Standard

Description

Elements with role=tablist must contain or own an element with role=tab and must not contain elements with other roles.

Help

tabpanel elements must not appear inside the tablist and are usually placed immediately after the tablist

Applicable standards

• ACT-Rules bc4a75
• ARIA 1.2
• 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

• 6.47 Dec 2022 Now checks that only allowed child roles are present.
• 5.37 May 2020 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5AriaRequiredChildRole-tablist