[KevinH]

No you misunderstand. A section can hold as many footnotes that you want. There just does not exist a role attribute to indicate this section contains footnotes but we can add an aria label to indicate that or just rely on the role assigned to each footnote leaving the section unlabelled.

The key idea behind a section is that good accessibility software will create a catalog of each section in a single file allowing the user to skip over or skip to that section easily.

So if a user has followed each footnote link and read every one, then upon reaching the end of that chapter/section they can easily skip over the entire section of already read footnotes.

Roles are not meant to be limiting by design, they are meant to be informative when used in a proper setting.

That is all.