lint: sync INTERACTIVE_ROLES util — remove tooltip per WAI-ARIA 1.2 §5.3.3

Author: johanrd

lib/utils/interactive-roles.js

@@ -10,21 +10,19 @@ const { roles } = require('aria-query');
 // aria-query's taxonomy, but supports `aria-activedescendant` and is widget-
 // like in practice. jsx-a11y and lit-a11y add it for the same reason.
 //
-// `tooltip` is also added — ARIA 1.2 doesn't cleanly categorize tooltip under
-// the widget taxonomy (aria-query's superClass is `structure/section`), but
-// tooltips with interactive content (close buttons, links) are common and our
-// existing test suite treats them as interactive.
+// `tooltip` is intentionally NOT added. Per WAI-ARIA 1.2 §5.3.3 — Document
+// Structure Roles (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#tooltip), tooltip is
+// a document-structure role, not a widget; the spec says "document structures
+// are not usually interactive." jsx-a11y and lit-a11y agree.
 module.exports.INTERACTIVE_ROLES = buildInteractiveRoleSet();
 
 function buildInteractiveRoleSet() {
-  const result = new Set(['toolbar', 'tooltip']);
+  const result = new Set(['toolbar']);
   for (const [role, def] of roles) {
     if (def.abstract) {
       continue;
     }
-    const descendsFromWidget = (def.superClass || []).some((chain) =>
-      chain.includes('widget')
-    );
+    const descendsFromWidget = (def.superClass || []).some((chain) => chain.includes('widget'));
     if (descendsFromWidget) {
       result.add(role);
     }