Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 697 on Freedom House page

Basics

About the Freedom House page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Tested 38 days ago by job xrd on 2026-04-24 at 20:02

About HTML element 697

• Tag name: NAV
• Text: Footer … Disclosure Statements
• Start tag: <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-footer-menu" id="block-footer" data-block-plugin-id="system_menu_block:footer" class="block block-menu navigation menu--footer">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/footer[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]
• Bounding box: x = 703, y = 4386, width = 647, height = 24

Take me there

About the role redundant issue

• Why it matters: Document includes unnecessary code
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 697 of the Freedom House page.

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)