diff --git a/html-aam/dir-role.tentative.html b/html-aam/dir-role.tentative.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e5c374b90c2b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html-aam/dir-role.tentative.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head>
+  <title>HTML-AAM dir Element Role Verification Test</title>
+  <script src="/resources/testharness.js"></script>
+  <script src="/resources/testharnessreport.js"></script>
+  <script src="/resources/testdriver.js"></script>
+  <script src="/resources/testdriver-vendor.js"></script>
+  <script src="/resources/testdriver-actions.js"></script>
+  <script src="/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js"></script>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+
+<p>Tentative test for the expected role mappings of the obsolete <code>dir</code> element.
+  The computedrole mappings are defined in <a href="https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/">HTML-AAM</a>.<p>
+
+<p>Merge the outcome of this test into roles.html in the appropriate alphabetical order, when it is no longer considered tentative:</p>
+
+<dir data-testname="el-dir" data-expectedrole="list" class="ex"><li>x</li><li>x</li></dir>
+
+
+<script>
+AriaUtils.verifyRolesBySelector(".ex");
+</script>
+
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/html-aam/roles.html b/html-aam/roles.html
index 22c3e7a215cd4a..a50c767a861908 100644
--- a/html-aam/roles.html
+++ b/html-aam/roles.html
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 <del data-testname="el-del" data-expectedrole="deletion" class="ex">x</del>
 <details data-testname="el-details" data-expectedrole="group" class="ex"><summary>x</summary>x</details>
 <dfn data-testname="el-dfn" data-expectedrole="term" class="ex">x</dfn>
+<!-- dir -> ./dir-role.tentative.html -->
 <!-- div -> ./roles-generic.html -->
 <!-- todo: dl -->
 
