aria-hidden elements do not contain focusable elements

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  • Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hi @abrightclearweb

    I’m happy to explain:

    This code is our “honeypot”. It is hidden for sighted people with the CSS in the style attribute, and hidden to assistive technologies via aria-hidden="true". A bot fills out every form markup, including this hidden textarea. If there is content submitted in this field, we know it is spam, because no user (sighted or not) will recognize it, as it is hidden.

    This is therefore a false positive, because it is the intention of this code to be hidden for everyone.

    I hope this clears things up!

    All the best
    Torsten

    Thread Starter abrightclearweb

    (@abrightclearweb)

    1 month ago

    Hi Torsten,

    Thanks for explaining.

    Deque’s notes on this issue say, “Aria-hidden may be used with extreme caution to hide visibly rendered content from assistive technologies only if the act of hiding this content is intended to improve the experience for users of assistive technologies by removing redundant or extraneous content.”

    As the hidden field is only for spambots, I think that applies in this case.

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