Kilotest: Diagnoses of false aria-hidden value risky violation by HTML element 162 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the Hesperian Health Guides page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 4 days ago by job glp on 2026-05-28 at 22:54

About HTML element 162

• Tag name: LI
• Text: HOME … DONATE
• Start tag: <li id="menu-item-search" class="noMobile menu-item menu-item-search-dropdown menu-item-avia-special" role="menuitem">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[11]
• Bounding box: x = 1868, y = 1, 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 162 of the Hesperian Health Guides 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