1878363 - Failing WPT wai-aria/role/contextual-roles.html contentinfo region scoped to main element is generic

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

See https://wpt.fyi/results/wai-aria/role/contextual-roles.html

We're failing the test "contentinfo region scoped to main element is generic"

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I don't see anywhere in the spec which requires this. HTML-AAM says footer scoped to main element should be generic, but even though HTML footer maps to ARIA contentinfo, nothing I can see says that ARIA contentinfo maps back to footer HTML. I'm asking for clarification on this.

Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I asked on the web-a11y Slack. Scott O'Hara replied: "that test isn’t correct. It’s only the footer element that has the contextual role. That specific test should be removed".

We should submit a PR to remove that test.

Comment 3

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Attachment: Bug 1878363: Remove "contentinfo region scoped to main element is generic" WPT test.

Per the HTML-AAM spec, the contextual role restriction only applies to the <footer> element, not to any other instance of the ARIA contentinfo role.
Even though <footer> maps to contentinfo, contentinfo does not necessarily map to <footer>.
Thus, this test is incorrect.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5c67e50b7358
Remove "contentinfo region scoped to main element is generic" WPT test. r=nlapre

Comment 5

[Web Platform Test Sync Bot [:wpt-sync] (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)]

Created web-platform-tests PR https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/44642 for changes under testing/web-platform/tests

Comment 6

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5c67e50b7358

Comment 7

[Web Platform Test Sync Bot [:wpt-sync] (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)]

Upstream PR merged by moz-wptsync-bot