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UA SHOULD guidance for roles outside of required a11y parent role (#2562)
Replicates #2418 by @rahimabdi Closes #2012, closes #2418 This PR adds additional user agent guidance for how orphan roles SHOULD be treated outside of the context of a required accessibility parent role.
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only meaningful when it is a child of an element with role <code>list</code>.
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<p>To determine whether an element has a parent with the required role, <a>user agents</a> MUST ignore any elements with the role <rref>generic</rref> or <rref>none</rref>.</p>
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<p>Also, <a>user agents</a> SHOULD ignore the role if it occurs outside the context of a required accessibility parent role.</p>
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<p class="note">An element with the appropriate <a href="#implicit_semantics">implicit WAI-ARIA semantic</a> fulfills this requirement.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="namecalculation">

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