Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 736 on Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 736 of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression page.

Basics

• About the role redundant issue
  • Why it matters: Document includes unnecessary code
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression page
  • URL: https://www.fire.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-05 at 23:06
• About HTML element 736
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: © 2026 Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression … Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression®, FIRE® and the flame logo® are registered trademarks of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. All rights reserved.
  • Start tag: <a class="logo" href="/" aria-label="" role="link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 80, y = 9210, width = 266, height = 128

Diagnoses

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The link role is unnecessary for element a with attribute href.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)