Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 510 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 510 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

Basics

• About the role redundant issue
  • Why it matters: Document includes unnecessary code
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page
  • URL: https://freedom.press/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 510
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: UL
  • Text: The Latest … Digital Security Education
  • Start tag: <ul role="list">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/ul[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 975, y = 6842, width = 212, height = 172

Diagnoses

1. The explicitly-assigned ARIA role "list" is redundant with the implicit role of the element <ul>

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The list role is unnecessary for element ul.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)