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False error aria-required-children with combobox

See original GitHub issue

I’m implementing an autocomplete widget with code similar to the example for a combobox here: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#combobox

<input type="text" aria-label="Tag" role="combobox" aria-expanded="true"
  aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="owned_listbox" aria-activedescendant="selected_option">
<ul role="listbox" id="owned_listbox">
  <li role="option">Zebra</li>
  <li role="option" id="selected_option">Zoom</li>
</ul>

The input has role combobox and the ul has role listbox.

Error: Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children. Required ARIA children role not present: listbox textbox

And this is pointing to the input which can’t have any children.

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Created 7 years ago
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WilcoFierscommented, Aug 30, 2017

@irbian We’re currently planning the release of axe 2.4. That should hit within the next few weeks.

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irbiancommented, Aug 30, 2017

When will be this deployed into the chrome extension?

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