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Creation Date: 1995-12-21T05:00:00Z
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Bad value “combobox” for attribute “role” on element “input”.

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".../label> <input id="header-search-field" class="autocomplete" type="search" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="header-search-results" aria-expanded="false" aria-activedescendant="" name="q" placeholder="Search for the software or skills you want to learn" data-limit="7" data-highlight-strategy="replace" data-results-container="#autocomplete-results" data-no-results-container="#no-results-container" data-one-result-container="#one-result-container" data-many-results-container="#many-results-container" data-loading-icon-container="#site-search-submit" data-url-template="/ajax/search/termAutocomplete?q=<%= val %>&limit=<%= limit %>" data-qa="header_search_field" /> <bu..."

Attribute “aria-expanded” not allowed on element “input” at this point.

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".../label> <input id="header-search-field" class="autocomplete" type="search" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="header-search-results" aria-expanded="false" aria-activedescendant="" name="q" placeholder="Search for the software or skills you want to learn" data-limit="7" data-highlight-strategy="replace" data-results-container="#autocomplete-results" data-no-results-container="#no-results-container" data-one-result-container="#one-result-container" data-many-results-container="#many-results-container" data-loading-icon-container="#site-search-submit" data-url-template="/ajax/search/termAutocomplete?q=<%= val %>&limit=<%= limit %>" data-qa="header_search_field" /> <bu..."

Bad value “” for attribute “aria-activedescendant” on element “input”: An ID must not be the empty string.

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".../label> <input id="header-search-field" class="autocomplete" type="search" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="header-search-results" aria-expanded="false" aria-activedescendant="" name="q" placeholder="Search for the software or skills you want to learn" data-limit="7" data-highlight-strategy="replace" data-results-container="#autocomplete-results" data-no-results-container="#no-results-container" data-one-result-container="#one-result-container" data-many-results-container="#many-results-container" data-loading-icon-container="#site-search-submit" data-url-template="/ajax/search/termAutocomplete?q=<%= val %>&limit=<%= limit %>" data-qa="header_search_field" /> <bu..."

An element with “role=menuitem” must be contained in, or owned by, an element with “role=menubar” or “role=menu”.

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"...> <li role="menuitem" class="redirect-links-cont sub-nav-links-cont need-to-train"> ..."

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Element “img” is missing required attribute “src”.

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The “aria-controls” attribute must point to an element in the same document.

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The “banner” role is unnecessary for element “header”.

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The “navigation” role is unnecessary for element “nav”.

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"...header"> <nav id="eyebrow" role="navigation"> <di..."

Attribute “aria-activedescendant” value should either refer to a descendant element, or should be accompanied by attribute “aria-owns”.

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".../label> <input id="header-search-field" class="autocomplete" type="search" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="header-search-results" aria-expanded="false" aria-activedescendant="" name="q" placeholder="Search for the software or skills you want to learn" data-limit="7" data-highlight-strategy="replace" data-results-container="#autocomplete-results" data-no-results-container="#no-results-container" data-one-result-container="#one-result-container" data-many-results-container="#many-results-container" data-loading-icon-container="#site-search-submit" data-url-template="/ajax/search/termAutocomplete?q=<%= val %>&limit=<%= limit %>" data-qa="header_search_field" /> <bu..."

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The “contentinfo” role is unnecessary for element “footer”.

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