Kilotest: Diagnoses of false aria-hidden value risky violation by HTML element 639 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 639

• Tag name: UL
• Text: Apply … myPSU
• Start tag: <ul id="psu-secondary-menu-mobile" class="navbar-nav nav-fill-xl text-uppercase psu-secondary-menu">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/nav[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[7]/ul[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

About the false aria-hidden value risky issue

• Why it matters: User may be misled by erroneously hidden or revealed document content
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.6

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the false aria-hidden value risky issue for HTML element 639 of the Portland State University page.

1. You have defined <code>aria-hidden="false"</code>. Caution, as the child content is always readable by screen readers regardless of setting <code>display: none</code> on any child element.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: aria_hidden_false