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[Closed] Accessibility with language switcher

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Last updated by Kor 1 month, 1 week ago.

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January 5, 2026 at 7:29 pm #17705247

lanceW

The accessibility checkers I have been complaining about the use of the 'role' attribute within the language switcher. Can you help with establishing how to fix this please?
Here is what I've found: Element has children which are not allowed: [role=none]
Required ARIA parents role not present: menu, menubar, group
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 am #17705928

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your patience. I've checked, and this is a known issue, and a fix for this is planned for inclusion in WPML version 4.9.

To the best of my knowledge, this version should be released as a beta version in a few weeks. And if things go right, the stable version will be released this month, January.

Unfortunately, there isn't any workaround available for this.

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