Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 612 on Mozilla Foundation page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 612 of the Mozilla 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 Mozilla Foundation page
  • URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:56
• About HTML element 612
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: FOOTER
  • Text: Discover Mozilla products and initiatives. We promise to keep your email private and secure — no sharing, no selling, just great updates. … Website Privacy Notice Cookies Legal Community Participation Guidelines About this site
  • Start tag: <footer class="moz24-footer" id="colophon" role="contentinfo">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/footer[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 0, y = 7291, width = 1920, height = 1026

Diagnoses

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The contentinfo role is unnecessary for element footer.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)