Kilotest: Diagnoses of role assigned instead of implicit violation by HTML element 617 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 617

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Site Search … Feedback
• Start tag: <div id="search-ui-screen-reader-notifications" role="status" aria-live="polite" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px);">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]
• Bounding box: x = -1, y = -1, width = 1, height = 1

About the role assigned instead of implicit issue

• Why it matters: User may misunderstand the purpose of an item
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the role assigned instead of implicit issue for HTML element 617 of the Portland General Electric page.

1. Explicit status role of the element is also an implicit HTML element role

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: role