ARIA: generic role

While ARIA is primarily used to express semantics, there are some elements that shouldn't expose a semantic name to assistive technologies. The generic role indicates an element's role is equivalent to that of the non-semantic <div> and <span> elements.

The generic role is intended for use as the implicit role of generic elements in host languages for use by user agents only; not for use by developers. Instead, to remove implicit accessibility semantics, use presentation or none, the <div> and <span> elements that have no semantic meaning, or semantic container roles such as group to semantically group descendants in a named container.

Like an element with role presentation, an element with role="generic" can provide a limited number of accessible states and properties for its descendants, such as aria-live attributes. However, unlike elements with role presentation, generic elements are exposed in accessibility APIs so that assistive technologies can gather certain properties such as layout and bounds.

Because the generic role is nameless, the aria-labelledby and aria-label attributes are prohibited. Because the role is generic, the aria-roledescription and aria-brailleroledescription attributes are also prohibited.

None. If a global ARIA state and property is set, generic or none will be ignored, and the implicit role of the element will be used.

This role is for use by user agents and not by developers. As such, no appropriate example exists.

• HTML <div> and <span> elements
• presentation roles such as
• group role