Option role dead link and clarification

[AlexLloyd0]

The entry for option in the element-role mapping has a dead link for "list of options".

The ARIA in HTML spec links to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-list. From my reading this means that <option> has a role of option if and only if it is a <datalist><option>.

Is it correct for <select><option> or <select><optgroup><option> not to have a role of option? As one data point Chrome and Firefox both expose <select size=2><option> as having role=option

[scottaohara]

the link is just not correctly remapping to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-elements.html#concept-select-option-list from the previous link that went to the W3C spec

[AlexLloyd0]

Thanks for updating. So an <option> has a role of option if it is in a list of options (<select><option> or <select><optgroup><option>) or in a datalist (<datalist><option>). But these are the only contexts in which an option can be used.

So should HTML-AAM entry be for just option, as in a list of options or represents a suggestion in a datalist is implied by the HTML Standard?