# Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents

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Certain ARIA roles must be enclosed by specific parent `roles` in order to carry out their intended accessibility functions.

WAI-ARIA outlines specifically, for each role, which child and parent roles are permitted and/or required. Elements with ARIA `role` values that lack needed parent element `role` values will prevent assistive technology from functioning as the developer intended.

When it is necessary to convey context to a user of assistive technology in the form of hierarchy (for example, the importance of a parent container, item, or sibling in a folder tree), and the hierarchy is not the same as the code structure or DOM tree, it is impossible to provide relationship information without using ARIA role parent elements.

<h3>What this Accessibility Rule Checks</h3>

Checks each WAI-ARIA role-containing element to confirm that all required parent roles are present.