hgroup now has role="group"

[ThePhilgrim]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/hgroup

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

The accessibility note below the section Try it

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

There has been a lot of work done around the <hgroup> tag that might warrant an update of the accessibility warnings on this MDN page. See below.

It says <hgroup> has been removed from the W3C HTML specification, but it seems this has been added again

Quoted from an a11yproject article:

Update August 1, 2022: Steve Faulkner proposed a way to introducehgroup again, which is promising, in:
Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML

Until browsers add the information themselves do:

Add role="group" and aria-roledescription="Heading group" as attributes to the hgroup element.
Add the subtitles in a paragraph (not a heading)

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Then all information about the structure and connection of the headings group is given for assistive technology in the accessibility tree.

What did you expect to see?

A recommendation on how one can ensure their usage of <hroup> is accessible.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

W3C PR on element mapping for <hgroup>
Related PR on W3C

Topic stumbled upon from this article

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• Folder: en-us/web/html/element/hgroup
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/hgroup
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/element/hgroup/index.md
• Last commit: fbb5b30
• Document last modified: 2023-12-09T03:36:42.000Z

[dipikabh]

I looked into the reported issue and gathered the following bits. The "Note" on the hgroup page (added via #30856) and in the Heading content section will need to revisited in light of the changes made by this W3C pull request to improve the accessibility of the <hgroup> element.

Since implementation bugs on various browsers (w3c/html-aam#398 (comment)) to change role="generic" to role="group" are still in open state, we cannot document the role change yet.
We can probably remove this bit from the note though: "It was removed from the W3C HTML specification but is still part of the WHATWG specification".

[Josh-Cena]

Fixed by #32214. @dipikabh it seems the role change is already implemented in FF but there's no dev-doc-needed on the bug.

[dipikabh]

Thanks for the nudge on this one, @Josh-Cena. Would you like to review #34647?

[Josh-Cena]

Thanks for taking this up! I think this would need BCD data too, and probably keep a note about legacy behavior. Also I would defer to an HTML reviewer for the content.