Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to the use of role presentation on content which conveys semantic information

ID: F92

Technology: failures

Type: Failure

When to Use

HTML

Description

This failure occurs when a role of presentation is applied to an element whose purpose is to convey information or relationships in the content. Elements such as table, can convey information about the content contained in them via their semantic markup. The WAI-ARIA role of presentation on the other hand, is intended to suppress semantic information of content from the accessibility API and prevent user agents from conveying that information to the user. Use of the presentation role for content which should convey semantic information may prevent the user from understanding that content.

Examples

In this example, tabular data is marked up with role=presentation. Though design layout tables can be marked up in such a way, data tables need to retain their semantic information and should therefore not be marked up with role=presentation.

Example Code:

<table role="presentation">
  <caption>Fruits and their colors</caption>
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Color</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td scope="row">banana</td>
    <td>yellow</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td scope="row">orange</td>
    <td>orange</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Tests

Procedure

  1. Check if an element which conveys information, structure, or relationships through its semantic markup
  2. Element has the attribute role="presentation".

Expected Results

Resources