Should aria-hidden influence other accessibility errors and warnings?

[dthomason@pcci.edu]

Given the following markup:

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<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" viewBox="0 0 100 100" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true">...</svg>

The following accessibility error is reported:

Because of this <svg> element's "img" role, naming this element with the "aria-label" or "aria-labelledby" attribute to provide an accessible name is required. Visit https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practice ... e_guidance for more information. [MSGID:NONE]

While I can ask our design team to add an aria-label to this element, it struck me as odd to do so when the element is marked as hidden. I thought I would raise the question here to see if it would make sense for CSS HTML Validator to suppress this error or maybe display a warning rather than an error in cases like this.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

If aria-hidden="true" then I can downgrade this message to a warning and assign it a message ID (so you can completely disable the message by message ID if you want). Does this sound good?

Thanks,
Albert

[dthomason@pcci.edu]

Albert,

I think that would make sense. A warning seems appropriate in this case; having a message ID would give us even more flexibility.

Thanks for the quick response!

[Albert Wiersch]

Great. I've made this change. It should be in the next update (v24.0210+).

There's no scheduled release date for the next update but if you'd like the update right away then let me know and I'll see what I can do!