diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/item/topic-cell.gjs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/item/topic-cell.gjs
index 3881ba0e494..140f389f886 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/item/topic-cell.gjs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/item/topic-cell.gjs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export default class TopicCell extends Component {
         @outletArgs={{hash topic=@topic}}
       />
 
-      <span class="link-top-line">
+      <span class="link-top-line" role="heading" aria-level="2">
         {{~! no whitespace ~}}
         <PluginOutlet
           @name="topic-list-before-status"
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/topic-link.gjs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/topic-link.gjs
index 581e1edf9db..7bddfcba829 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/topic-link.gjs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-list/topic-link.gjs
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ export default class TopicLink extends Component {
       <a
         href={{this.url}}
         data-topic-id={{@topic.id}}
-        role="heading"
-        aria-level="2"
         class="title"
         ...attributes
       >{{htmlSafe @topic.fancyTitle}}</a>
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/helpers/topic-link.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/helpers/topic-link.js
index 18e9178ccc7..217e0e27676 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/helpers/topic-link.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/helpers/topic-link.js
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ export default function topicLink(topic, args = {}) {
 
   return htmlSafe(
     `<a href='${url}'
-        role='heading'
-        aria-level='2'
         class='${classes.join(" ")}'
         data-topic-id='${topic.id}'>${title}</a>`
   );
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/raw-templates/list/topic-list-item.hbr b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/raw-templates/list/topic-list-item.hbr
index 0cdb6e8a453..fc86f729043 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/raw-templates/list/topic-list-item.hbr
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/raw-templates/list/topic-list-item.hbr
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 <td class='main-link clearfix topic-list-data' colspan="1">
   {{~raw-plugin-outlet name="topic-list-before-link"}}
   {{~plugin-outlet name="topic-list-before-link" outletArgs=(raw-hash topic=topic)}}
-  <span class='link-top-line'>
+  <span class="link-top-line" role="heading" aria-level="2">
     {{~raw-plugin-outlet name="topic-list-before-status"}}
     {{~plugin-outlet name="topic-list-before-status" outletArgs=(raw-hash topic=topic)}}
     {{~raw "topic-status" topic=topic}}