Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 521 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 38 days ago by job mwy on 2026-04-24 at 21:54

About HTML element 521

• Tag name: UL
• Text: Staff & Contributors … Store
• Start tag: <ul role="list">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1211, y = 6842, width = 212, height = 239

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 521 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The list role is unnecessary for element ul.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)