Thestructure role is for document structural elements.

Description

Structure is a superclassabstract role for document structures, like asdocument,rowgroup, andsectionhead, that support the accessibility of dynamic web content by helping assistive technologies determine active content versus static document content. Some subclass roles, likesection role, are in turn superclasses of other roles.

Thestructure role is the superclass for all document structure roles, which are used to provide a structural description for a section of content. Most structure roles should no longer be used as browsers now support semantic HTML element with the same meaning. The structure roles without HTML equivalents, such as thepresentation role which means content is presentational only, provide information on the document structure to assistive technologies such as screen readers as equivalent native HTML tags are not available.

Specifications

See also

• ARIA:roletype role
• ARIA:generic role
• ARIA:presentation role
• ARIA:range role
• ARIA:section role
• ARIA:sectionhead role