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Re: Dot Leaders Should Be Seen, but Not heard

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Apr 14, 2021 9:24AM

Mark,

Why did you choose to use a role attribute on the span? role="dot-leaders"

1. This is not necessary and violates one of the 2 main principles of ARIA. The role here serves no purpose, because you hid the span from assistive technologies. Automated tools such as Axe or Wave, might call that as a warning, because you are hijacking the span element.
2. The role attribute has specific values that it uses. "dot-leaders" is not one of them that I am aware of. If you are using this as a CSS class, then you are implementing the role value incorrectly.

Those are the only concerns I have noticed by reading quickly through your markup.





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