Element: ariaRoleDescription property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2023.

The ariaRoleDescription property of the Element interface reflects the value of the aria-roledescription attribute, which defines a human-readable, author-localized description for the role of an element.

Value

A string.

Examples

In this example the aria-roledescription attribute on the element with an ID of myApplication has been set. Using ariaRoleDescription we can update the value.

html

<div
  id="myApplication"
  role="application"
  aria-roledescription="a description of this widget">
  …
</div>

let el = document.getElementById("myApplication");
console.log(el.ariaRoleDescription); // "a description of this widget"
el.ariaRoleDescription = "an updated description of this widget";
console.log(el.ariaRoleDescription); // "an updated description of this widget"