Link with nested role text results in error 'Links do not have a discernible name'

When a link has a nested element with role="text" (added to stop ‘text splitting’ in VoiceOver iOS https://axesslab.com/text-splitting/) such as:

<a href="myurl.com">
    <span role="text">
        <span class="VisuallyHiddenText">Audio, </span>
        <span>Today's headlines</span>
        <span class="VisuallyHiddenText">, 1 minute 3 seconds</span>
    </span>
</a>

This causes the following error when running an audit in Lighthouse Accessibility ‘Links do not have a discernible name’.

This error should not occur as the link does have a discernible name with the presence of role="text". See related issue: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/9075

[patrickhulce]

Nevermind I created one with the repro, just curious if the page with the example code you provided was in the wild somewhere 😃

[greenc05]

It will be live on Monday! Can send it then if useful.