This change separates the steps for checking the string value of the
ARIA “role” attribute out from the element.role_or_default() function
into a separate function — in order to expose a way to just check if the
ARIA “role” attribute actually has a value, without also then computing
a default role value if no “role” attribute value was found.
Otherwise, without this change, the only available function for
retrieving ARIA role values is the element.role_or_default() function —
which always does the additional step of computing (and returning) a
default role value if no “role” attribute is found.
