Kaiser Permanente: Azure chat bot improperly using aria-roledescription attribute - missing semantic role

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**Accessibility 161217: ** Azure chat bot improperly using aria-roledescription attribute - missing semantic role

Product name, version, and build: Azure Chat Bot, Edge/Chrome v.86

OS version and build: Windows 10

AT version and build (if applicable): JAWS 2020, NVDA 2020.3

Does this repro with other AT? (If applicable) Yes, Narrator and NVDA

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Prerequisite (if any)

Description
When accessing the customer's chat experience, a number of elements are using the aria-roledescription property to add more detail to the semantic role. In several cases where this is used, the roledescription property MUST be accompanied by a semantic role (aria or otherwise).
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 (w3.org)

Repro steps

1. Open URL to environment in Chrome/edge
2. Submit a zip code and press Enter
3. Right-click the box labeled "Great! Now, Let’s focus your search a little more."
4. Select inspect element
5. Observe in source code for chat bubble, there is a DIV given aria-roledescription="message"

Bot said:

Great! Now, Let’s focus your search a little more.

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Screenshots N/A

Actual results
The element given aria-roledescription needs to have a semantic role. A div given aria-roledescription is insufficient

Expected Results
User would understand that this is an interactive control with a semantic role. If not an interactive control, should not use aria-roledescription

WCAG Reference Link:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/name-role-value.html

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[corinagum]

This is a duplicate of #3537, and is fixed in our R11 release, of which the CDN version is planned to be released today.

[UPDATE] - the CDN released has been postponed to next week. Please check back then for 4.11!