Product: axe-core

Expectation: <input aria-hidden="true"> failing test for aria-hidden-focus and having clear help message explaining why this element is failing.

Actual: axe core 4.3.5 reports aria-hidden-focus violation with description about its elements (which don't exist).

Motivation: misleading help text made some tech support to think there is false positive with axe rule, because it's mentioning do not contain elements, and there are just one single DOM element, with no other elements that it contains that may be failing this test.

I know it sounds a little bit nerdy, but such help text have to be clear, as it's getting even worse when it's got to Lighthouse: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/8a29854072202807ba54276beb9cdd9f244007b5/lighthouse-core/audits/accessibility/aria-hidden-focus.js#L18

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minimal repro example:

<input aria-hidden="true">

axe help text: "ARIA hidden element must not contain focusable elements"
Lighthouse title: "[aria-hidden="true"] elements do not contain focusable descendents"