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"role=text" should have no focusable descendants

aria-text

Ensure role="text" is used on elements with no focusable descendants

This is advice, not conformance

No WCAG success criterion requires this check, so failing it does not fail an audit. It still catches real problems, which is why we surface it — separately, so your compliance score stays honest.

How it is reported

A11ySignal reports this at serious impact. Every failing element comes with its CSS selector and the markup that failed, so you can go straight to the line rather than hunting for it. Deque publishes the engine-level detail:

https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.13/aria-text

Check implemented by axe-core 4.13.0, © Deque Systems, MPL-2.0.