Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 40 on World Wide Web Consortium page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 40 of the World Wide Web Consortium page.

Basics

• About the role redundant issue
  • Why it matters: Document includes unnecessary code
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the World Wide Web Consortium page
  • URL: https://www.w3.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:54
• About HTML element 40
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: UL
  • Text: 日本語ホームページ … Chinese website
  • Start tag: <ul class="clean-list" role="list">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 390, y = 0, width = 1140, height = 44

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)