Should role=listbox with overflow fail scrollable-region-focusable?

This currently fails but I wonder if it should.

<div role="listbox" style="overflow-y: auto; max-height: .1em;">
  <div role="option">…</div>
</div>

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For role=listbox you should manage focus (through aria-activedescendat). Thus it seems to make no sense to require the region to be focusable, as it shouldn’t. Perhaps I’m unaware of situations where a role=listbox should get focus. In which case I’d be happy to learn about those.

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Product: axe-core Expectation: no issue Actual: scrollable-region-focusable fails Motivation: not an accessibility issue

axe-core version: 4.3.5(?) (Whichever ember-a11y-testing uses)

[ZoeBijl]

Thank you all for looking into this. I think we can close this as it seems to be an issue in our implementation rather than the test. Thanks again!

[WilcoFiers]

Here’s the code for it: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blob/develop/lib/rules/scrollable-region-focusable-matches.js#L31

Axe checks if the element has a role that can be a popup, like listbox, and then it checks if that element is controlled or owned by a combobox.