Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 72 on Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 72 of the Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page.

Basics

• About the role redundant issue
  • Why it matters: Document includes unnecessary code
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page
  • URL: https://www.pdx.edu/senior-adult-learning-center/
  • Tested on 2026-04-07 at 18:28
• About HTML element 72
  • Tag name: HEADER
  • Text: Apply … CONTACT
  • Start tag: <header role="banner">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 121

Diagnoses

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The banner role is unnecessary for element header.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)