Accessibility: Best Practice – Ensure Elements Marked Presentational Are Ignored

Elements marked as presentational should not have global ARIA or tabindex to ensure all screen readers ignore them.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Ensure Elements Marked Presentational Are Ignored’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure all elements with role=“none” or role=“presentation” do not have a global ARIA attribute and are not focusable.