Kilotest: Diagnoses of custom button keyboard-inoperable? violation by HTML element 715 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 715

• Tag name: LI
• Text: APPLY NOW
• Start tag: <li class="list-inline-item mt-2 mt-md-0 ml-md-2 mr-0 mr-md-2 my-md-2">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[2]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[3]
• Bounding box: x = 1084, y = 713, width = 224, height = 58

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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 715 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