Error: Element fieldset is missing one or more of the following attributes:

Hey,

I’m not familar with these aria attributes. I’ve done a little reading and don’t fully understand their role with fieldsets.

If a fieldset is used to contain multiple inputs (e.g. a checkbox list) – how could the fieldset have a maxvalue/minvalue/valuenow. I can understand each field having this attribute, but then it would be in addition to an already properally formatting input field.

Can you tell which field type you’re getting this message on? For example, is it a single file upload field?

Do you have an example of what it’s meant to look like?

Hi,

I am not familiar either–it just got reported by the checker.

Not sure about redundancy as I’m seeing posts about how ARIA can replace fieldset and legend but I’ve found the following, which I think will fix the validation error:

<fieldset role="radiogroup">

I’m getting the message due to a radio button set I added. I’ve included the generated code for that below.

<li id='field_2_5' class='gfield gfield_contains_required field_sublabel_below field_description_below' >
  <fieldset aria-required='true' class='gfieldset'>
    <legend class='gfield_label'>Consent<span class='gfield_required'> * <span class='sr-only'> Required</span></span></legend>
    <div class='ginput_container'>

    <ul class='gfield_radio' id='input_2_5'>
      <li class='gchoice_2_5_0'><input name='input_5' type='radio' value='option A.'  id='choice_2_5_0'     />
        <label for='choice_2_5_0' id='label_2_5_0'>option A</label>
      </li>
      <li class='gchoice_2_5_1'>
        <input name='input_5' type='radio' value='option B'  id='choice_2_5_1'     />
        <label for='choice_2_5_1' id='label_2_5_1'>option B</label>
      </li>
      <li class='gchoice_2_5_2'>
      <input name='input_5' type='radio' value='option C'  id='choice_2_5_2'     />
      <label for='choice_2_5_2' id='label_2_5_2'>option C</label>
      </li>
    </ul>

    </div>
  </fieldset>
</li>

Hey,

Im seeing the message on a ‘name’ field with a first name and last name field.

Im thinking it may actually be a false positive, that the tool is assuming the feildset is a ‘range’ of some sort.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?showsource=yes&doc=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.itsupportguides.com%2Fgravity-forms-wcag-20-form-fields%2Fsingle-page-form%2F#l116c193

Not really sure what’s going on, what it means and what to do.

Hi,

I tried validating the sample form (https://demo.itsupportguides.com/gravity-forms-wcag-20-form-fields/single-page-form/) with https://www.totalvalidator.com and it reports the following message:

The ‘aria-required’ attribute is not allowed in this context:
The ARIA specification only allows certain ‘aria-…’ attributes to be used with certain roles. See https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ (displayed in new window).

It looks like since the ARIA required attribute is used, it’s expecting an ARIA role to specified as well. For my radio button form field, it would be <fieldset aria-required='true' role="radiogroup">.

Reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles