fix(core): stop the ARIA rules reporting valid markup

[oekazuma]

First of the fixes from the Phase B-4 review record (#511): its Priority 1 rows 3, 4, 5 and 6, all in the ARIA data layer. Each one warned on markup that is correct.

Role fallback lists (row 4)

role may hold a space-separated list, and a user agent resolves it to the first token naming a concrete role. That is the point of the form — a value can name a role older user agents do not know. The rule flagged any list containing an unknown or abstract token, so both of these warned on correct markup:

<div role="button bogus">…</div>
<div role="widget checkbox" aria-checked="true">…</div>

Only a value that resolves to nothing is reported now. That also dissolves a message defect the review filed separately: the wording used to be derived from the first bad token while echoing the whole literal, so role="widget bogus" and role="bogus widget" described the same pair of defects differently.

The pinned ARIA data has drifted (rows 5, 6)

aria-query@5.3.2 is not the clean ARIA 1.2 snapshot it looks like — it carries 1.2's 48 attributes plus three 1.3 additions — so the gap is patched by name rather than by version. Rejected before this PR, all defined in the ARIA 1.3 editor's draft and shipping in browsers:

• roles comment, image, sectionheader, sectionfooter, suggestion
• attributes aria-colindextext, aria-rowindextext

image is the sharpest: html-aria added it as the preferred synonym for img, so the tool rejected the name the spec now prefers.

option and treeitem (row 3)

aria-query requires aria-selected on both — an ARIA 1.1 requirement that neither the 1.2 Recommendation nor the 1.3 draft carries, so APG-idiomatic listbox and tree markup was flagged. The 1.3 draft re-lists inherited requirements where they genuinely apply (menuitemradio → aria-checked), which is what makes the absence deliberate rather than an omission.

Scope and safety

All three changes narrow detection, so recorded suppressions keep matching and no project's CI can newly fail. Genuine defects still fire, verified end-to-end through runRules:

input	result
role="button bogus"	clean
role="widget checkbox"	clean
role="image"	clean
<li role="option">	clean
aria-colindextext="Q1"	clean
role="bogus"	role="bogus" on <div> is not a WAI-ARIA role
role="widget"	role="widget" on <div> is an abstract role
role="bogus alsobogus"	no token in role="bogus alsobogus" on <div> names a concrete WAI-ARIA role
<div role="checkbox">	missing required aria-checked
aria-lable="x"	`aria-lable` is not a WAI-ARIA attribute

Four regression tests added. Docs updated in both languages for the fallback semantics, the required-aria-props skip rationale (which stated the spec rule wrongly — "only the first token would apply" rather than the first concrete one), and a note on each affected page that the vocabulary comes from a pinned data copy extended by hand, so a newer name reads as unknown until the data moves.

pnpm build, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test (core 1526 / cli / vite / kitchen-sink all green — the gallery's planted cases still fire), pnpm lint, translate:stamp for the three page pairs.

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• Bug Fixes

  • Improved accessibility validation for fallback role lists by checking the resolved concrete role.
  • Added recognition for newer ARIA roles and attributes.
  • Removed incorrect aria-selected requirements for option and treeitem elements.

• Documentation

  • Updated English and Japanese accessibility guidance and examples.
  • Clarified fallback role resolution and supported ARIA vocabulary.

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Walkthrough

The accessibility rules now resolve concrete fallback roles, recognize selected ARIA 1.3 roles and attributes, and omit required-property checks for option and treeitem. Tests, documentation, translation metadata, and a patch changeset reflect these updates.

Changes

ARIA rule corrections

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ARIA data and rule validation packages/core/src/rules/a11y/aria-data.ts, packages/core/src/rules/a11y/invalid-role.ts, packages/core/src/rules/a11y/required-aria-props.ts	The rules recognize selected ARIA 1.3 names. Role lists resolve to the first concrete role. Unresolved lists remain invalid or skipped as applicable. Required-property checks use the resolved role, with no required properties for option and treeitem.
Accessibility rule test coverage packages/core/test/a11y-aria-rules.test.ts	Tests cover fallback role resolution, unresolved role lists, ARIA 1.3 roles and attributes, and option and treeitem required-property behavior.
Documentation and release metadata docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/*, docs/src/content/docs/ja/rules/a11y/*, docs/blume.translations.json, .changeset/curly-pigs-repeat.md	Documentation describes fallback resolution, ARIA vocabulary sources, and unknown attribute behavior. The changeset and translation hashes reflect the rule updates.

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This PR narrows ARIA diagnostics to avoid reporting valid markup while preserving reports for invalid roles, attributes, and missing requirements; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/src/content/docs/ja/rules/a11y/invalid-role.md`:
- Line 20: Rewrite the Japanese sentence beginning with
「いずれかのトークンが具体的なフォールバックリスト」 so it clearly states that the role list contains a
concrete role, while preserving the existing examples and explanation of
fallback-role lists.

In `@packages/core/src/rules/a11y/invalid-role.ts`:
- Around line 19-23: Update the role validation logic around isConcreteRole and
a11yRequiredAriaProps to resolve the first concrete role token once, then pass
that resolved role to required-property checks instead of the original
space-separated role literal. Preserve acceptance of roles with unknown fallback
tokens, and add a regression test covering a fallback role such as role="bogus
checkbox" without aria-checked.

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