topic Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes in ArcGIS Instant Apps Questions

Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

sigccil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:59:04 GMT

HI!

We're currently in the process of updating our applications to meet WCAG accessibility standards and are reviewing all of them as part of this effort. You may have seen my other post. Per our ESRI solution engineer has recommended that we post all issues in the community forum in addition to opening tickets. We're trying to collaborate and raise awareness of the issues we're seeing in our applications. We want to highlight ones that can be easily resolved by users and which ones fall under ESRI's purview.

Issue:

This is a unique one in that there is an aria label inside of the div but because the div does not have a role assigned to it screen readers and other assist tools will ignore it all together. Since this div is created from the map I do think this falls under ERSI purview to fix. Has anyone else seen this issue and been able to fix it?

Steps to reproduce in app:

https://maps.cookcountyil.gov/recyclingviewer/

https://maps.cookcountyil.gov/sectionmonuments/

open up application
In the upper right search bar type in a local munipality.
1. You can type or "Chicago" or "Park Ridge"
Run axeDev tools.

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

ScottM — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:55:47 GMT

https://maps.cookcountyil.gov/recyclingviewer

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

KellyHutchins — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:18:36 GMT

I'm trying to repro this with Axe dev tools but so far no luck. I'm assuming it comes from the popup chart header but if I inspect that element I don't see an aria-label set.

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

sigccil — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:42:41 GMT

hi @KellyHutchins,
I just retested this on three separate browsers; Chrome, Edge, & FireFox, and I too am unable to reproduce the error. After inspecting the code it looks like role has been updated in the div tag, see below. Is there a way for you verify if an internal team fixed this issue?

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

KellyHutchins — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:33:39 GMT

There was a release of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript in February that may have resolved this issue.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/

Do you know when you found the problem originally? If it was before Feb then perhaps it was addressed in the latest update.

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

sigccil — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:49 GMT

3 Weeks ago on 2/25/2026.

To be clear, some fix in the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript release may have fixed one of the components in the instant app?

Re: Accessibility Issues: Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes

KellyHutchins — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:50:30 GMT

Instant apps uses the components in the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript so yes it may have been resolved by a fix in the component.