Kilotest: Diagnoses of role invalid violation by HTML element 177 on Portland General Electric page

Basics

About the Portland General Electric page

• URL: https://portlandgeneral.com/
• Tested 38 days ago by job 9pn on 2026-04-24 at 19:42

About HTML element 177

• Tag name: FORM
• Text: Site Search … Español
• Start tag: <form role="combobox" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="listbox" aria-labelledby="site-search-label">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1087, y = 25, width = 300, height = 35

About the role invalid issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on the nature of an item
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the role invalid issue for HTML element 177 of the Portland General Electric page.

1. ARIA role should be appropriate for the element; ARIA role combobox is not allowed for given element

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: aria-allowed-role

2. The ARIA role 'combobox' is not valid for the element <form>

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_valid