Validation Warning
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I’m using a Customizr child theme and I get the following warning error when trying to validate:
“Warning: The banner role is unnecessary for element header.”
W3 dot com validator link
I chased down the file that is loading the offending header element and it’s the header.php file in the parent Customizr theme Version: 3.5.11.How can I add the edited offending header element to my child theme?
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Well the quick and easy resolution was to just copy the header.php file into my child theme and edit accordingly, it now passes validation. But I really dislike this type of fix, as the header.php file in the parent Customizr theme could change in a future update thus causing more issues later.
After doing some research (see the ARIA documentation) the <header> element includes a role=banner attribute by default so using the roll=”banner” ARIA within the header element throws the warning error.
This is a default unedited Customizr theme, updated to v3.5.11 on 4-21-2017. So it really needs to be addressed by the developers. Hopefully this issue will be fixed in the next Customizr update.
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