All checks / aria-required-parent

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents

Ensure elements with an ARIA role that require parent roles are contained by them

Why this is a legal issue in the EU

The European Accessibility Act requires covered digital services to meet the harmonised standard EN 301 549. Clause 9 of that standard adopts the WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria directly, so a failure of SC 1.3.1 is a failure of EN 9.1.3.1 — which is the reference a supervising authority or a complainant will cite, not the WCAG number on its own.

What an automated check can and cannot tell you

The aria-required-parent check is machine-decidable: where it reports a failure, the failure is real. It cannot confirm the opposite. Passing this check does not mean you satisfy EN 9.1.3.1, because parts of that criterion depend on human judgement about meaning and context.

Related clauses

• EN 9.1.3.1 — Info and RelationshipsWCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1

Reference

Full technique documentation for aria-required-parent →