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

Basics

About the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression page

• URL: https://www.fire.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job r14 on 2026-05-03 at 17:04

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 = 9356, width = 266, height = 128

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 736 of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression page.

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)