ARIA in HTML - test case for deprecated role=directory

last updated 10 January 2022

Tests:

Test 1

Authors are NOT RECOMMENDED to use the role=directory, as it has been deprecated. The following div, ul, ol and menu elements have a role=directory.

Authors should not need to use role=listitem on li elements, however not all browsers will respect the li mapping to listitem if the parent list element has a role=directory specified.

an item in the directory
an item in the directory
  • an item in the directory, no explicit role
  • an item in the directory with role=listitem
  1. an item in the directory, no explicit role
  2. an item in the directory with role=listitem
  • an item in the directory, no explicit role
  • an item in the directory with role=listitem
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    Expected result:
    warn authors role=directory has been deprecated, and that they should use a native list element (ul, ol, menu) or role=list instead.

    Note: while a directory maps to a list, if used on a ul, ol or menu, their child li elements do not remain mapped to listitem in Chromium browsers. Firefox and Webkit do still map the li elements to listitem. Essentially, if not using listitem on each child of a directory, then those lists will be broken in Chromium browsers.