title: How to make screenreader not recognise an element as an element group?
body: <p>I'm currently trying to make a DOM element with one to several child elements as accessible as possible. The element will contain illustrative content using background images in several layers. I'm currently using a child element for providing the image description as described <a href="http://davidmacd.com/blog/alternate-text-for-css-background-images.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">in this informative blog post about how to label illustrative content inside of a content group</a>. The container element may also contain other child elements containing text content.</p>
  
  <p>An example element would currently look as follows:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;div tabindex="0" class="comic-panel"&gt;
    &lt;span role="img" aria-label="There is a cat sitting in the window."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;div style="background-image: url(/assets/img/window.png);" class="comic-panel__layer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div style="background-image: url(/assets/img/cat.png);" class="comic-panel__layer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;p class="speech-bubble"&gt;Meow!&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Testing with OSX VoiceOver, after tabbing into this element, the image description and the text is read fine, but subsequently, the following announcement is made as well:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zViKW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zViKW.png" alt="You are currently on a group, inside web content. To interact with items in this group, press Control-Option-Shift-Down Arrow. To exit this web area, press Control-Option-Shift-Up Arrow"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to update the markup of this element in a way, that this <code>group</code> announcement is not made by screenreaders? In almost all cases there will be nothing for the user to further explore or use inside of the element so this message would be redundant and I'd like VoiceOver to not recognise the element as a group that triggers this message.</p>