Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 439 on Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page

Basics

About the Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page

• URL: https://www.pdx.edu/senior-adult-learning-center/
• Tested 38 days ago by job 51z on 2026-04-24 at 20:10

About HTML element 439

• Tag name: ARTICLE
• Text: APRIL 25TH 2026 … ADD TO MY CALENDAR
• Start tag: <article role="article" class="node node--type-event node--sticky">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 506, y = 2984, width = 442, height = 521

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 439 of the Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The article role is unnecessary for element article.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)