Should main navigation list items have role of none?

[anevins12]

Should list items inside the main navigation menu have role of none?

As the <ul> element is being repurposed using a role of menu, should the semantic role of the list item elements also be removed? Otherwise users of AT would hear 'list item' unexpectedly and that could be confusing. More info: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#presentation_role

[chundhau]

@anevins12: Here's how I am defining list items presently:

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` As you can see, `

` items are defined with `role=none`. After reexamining the W3C pattern, I think I can actually remove the `` tags inside the `

` tags and just define the `

` elements as having `role=menuitem` instead. Does that sound reasonable to you?

I have updated index.html as described in the above comment, i.e., I have removed the child <a> tags. This required some tweaks to the JavaScript but it is all working fine now.