What is role="main" used for in jQuery Mobile 1.4?

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jQuery Mobile 1.4 has changed

<div data-role="content">...</div>

into

<div role="main" class="ui-content">...</div>

I understand the purpose of using a class now instead of a data-role, but what I don't understand is this role="main". What is it used for?

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