aria-describedby referenced to empty element is not shown as "needs review"

[iamrafan]

The intended fix for issue #1151 is not working as expected. Case-1 in the below examples does not show up as "needs review'.

Demo: https://codepen.io/iamrafan/pen/abOrzVb?editors=1000

aria-describedby referenced to an empty <span> is now not a failure but it does not show up as 'needs review' as well.

axe-core version: 3.5.2-canary.37be85f
axe-Coconut version: 4.4.1

[straker]

The code is working as expected from that issue. The original issue was that axe errored when the element was missing but has always passed if the element exists (even when empty). So the change allows non-existent elements to not fail.

Are you saying you'd like axe-core to flag empty aria-describedby elements as needs review?

[iamrafan]

@straker Thanks for the clarification.

Are you saying you'd like axe-core to flag empty aria-describedby elements as needs review?

I am good either way

[straker]

Closing as the code snippet provided shows needs review for the missing aria-describedby:

"Fix all of the following:
ARIA attribute element ID does not exist on the page: aria-describedby="giftCard_2Error_2""