Documentation for aria-hidden-focus for single element is misleading and not fully correct

[kospl]

Product: axe-core

Expectation: <input aria-hidden="true"> failing test for aria-hidden-focus and having clear help message explaining why this element is failing.

Actual: axe core 4.3.5 reports aria-hidden-focus violation with description about its elements (which don't exist).

Motivation: misleading help text made some tech support to think there is false positive with axe rule, because it's mentioning do not contain elements, and there are just one single DOM element, with no other elements that it contains that may be failing this test.

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I know it sounds a little bit nerdy, but such help text have to be clear, as it's getting even worse when it's got to Lighthouse: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/8a29854072202807ba54276beb9cdd9f244007b5/lighthouse-core/audits/accessibility/aria-hidden-focus.js#L18

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minimal repro example:

<input aria-hidden="true">

axe help text: "ARIA hidden element must not contain focusable elements"
Lighthouse title: "[aria-hidden="true"] elements do not contain focusable descendents"

[straker]

Thanks for the issue. We'll try to update the message to make it more clear.

[TechThomas]

Hey @straker how is the process going on improving the messaging. We actually just tweeted about this issue https://twitter.com/TechThomas/status/1488413276400922624

[straker]

We weren't able to get this into the 4.4.0 release which just went out, but we can try to get it added to 4.4.1.

[TechThomas]

@straker when will 4.4.1 be expected?

[straker]

Sorry, 4.4.1 was released not too long ago but did not include this fix (it was a quick release to fix a bug in 4.4.0). I'm not sure when we plan on releasing the next release, so I'm unable able to say when this will be addressed.

[padmavemulapati]

Validated with the latest axe-core, develop branch axe.js source,
It was showing in 4.3.5 , for aria-hidden-focus rule failing description is ""Ensures aria-hidden elements do not contain focusable elements" , below is the screenshot

and now it got fixed and the description is appearing as "Ensures aria-hidden elements are not focusable nor contain focusable elements"

Source validated to produce this violation is ""