Kilotest: Diagnoses of custom button keyboard-inoperable? violation by HTML element 497 on Portland State University page

Basics

About the Portland State University page

• URL: https://www.pdx.edu/
• Tested 24 days ago by job j3n on 2026-05-08 at 15:59

About HTML element 497

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Research … University Research Centers
• Start tag: <li class="nav-item dropdown text-left-lg-down p-2 pt-lg-0 pb-lg-0 pl-lg-0 nav-item--level-1">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

Take me there

About the custom button keyboard-inoperable? issue

• Why it matters: Custom item may prevent a keyboard-only user from operating it
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.1.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the custom button keyboard-inoperable? issue for HTML element 497 of the Portland State University page.

1. You have defined attribute <code>role="button"</code> on a <code><a></code> element. Make sure the user is able to activate it using the <kbd>ENTER</kbd> and <kbd>SPACE</kbd> keys.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: link_button_space_key