Axe: ARIA (aria)

axe/aria contains accessibility rules from the axe aria category.

See the “Can the hint be configured?” section of hint-axe for examples of enabling, disabling, and changing the severity of individual rules.

Default rules (WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA)

• Elements must only use allowed ARIA attributes (aria-allowed-attr)
• ARIA commands must have an accessible name (aria-command-name)
• aria-hidden=’true’ must not be present on the document body (aria-hidden-body)
• ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (aria-input-field-name)
• ARIA meter nodes must have an accessible name (aria-meter-name)
• ARIA progressbar nodes must have an accessible name (aria-progressbar-name)
• Required ARIA attributes must be provided (aria-required-attr)
• Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (aria-required-children)
• Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (aria-required-parent)
• aria-roledescription must be on elements with a semantic role (aria-roledescription)
• ARIA roles used must conform to valid values (aria-roles)
• ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name (aria-toggle-field-name)
• ARIA tooltip nodes must have an accessible name (aria-tooltip-name)
• ARIA attributes must conform to valid names (aria-valid-attr)
• ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (aria-valid-attr-value)
• Table header text must not be empty (empty-table-header)

Additional rules (off by default)

• ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (aria-allowed-role)
• ARIA dialog and alertdialog nodes should have an accessible name (aria-dialog-name)
• “role=text” should have no focusable descendants (aria-text)
• ARIA treeitem nodes should have an accessible name (aria-treeitem-name)
• Elements of role none or presentation should be flagged (presentation-role-conflict)