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From: Bossley, Peter A.
Date: Jan 14, 2020 7:30PM

Adding a role to a native element that already inherits that role should not cause double reading. Where I see that double reading issue most often is where a container element nested inside the native role has the additional duplicated role assigned to it. I'm not sure the double specification is really necessary with modern browsers and AT, but if you want to make sure it wouldn't be an issue putting an example together and using an API inspector should be able to show you what the accessibility tree from the browser is actually exposing. I find this useful when I can't figure out, after code/DOM inspection, if a screen reader is misbehaving or if it is the browser.