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MDN ARIA tree role

Documents tree as a hierarchical widget for selecting one or more items, with treeitem descendants, group containers, aria-expanded on parent nodes only, accessible naming, aria-multiselectable, selected state independent from focus in multi-select trees, keyboard navigation, typeahead, and dynamic node position properties.

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Tree selection Choose tree selection when hierarchy is meaningful to the user's selection task and the parent-child relationship changes how options are found or interpreted. The tree container has role tree and a visible label referenced by aria-labelledby or an accessible name. MDN documents tree role hierarchy, accessible names, aria-expanded placement, aria-multiselectable, focus versus selected state, keyboard navigation, and dynamic node properties.

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