Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 122 on Freedom House page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 122 of the Freedom House 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 House page
  • URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 122
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: NAV
  • Text: Primary Navigation … Policy Recommendations
  • Start tag: <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-primarynavigation-menu" id="block-primarynavigation" data-block-plugin-id="system_menu_block:primary-navigation" class="block block-menu navigation menu--primary-navigation">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/header[1]/div[3]/div[1]/nav[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 580, y = 40, width = 722, height = 103

Diagnoses

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The navigation role is unnecessary for element nav.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)