Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 325 on America Walks page

Basics

About the America Walks page

• URL: https://americawalks.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job 9rl on 2026-05-04 at 17:00

About HTML element 325

• Tag name: FOOTER
• Text: Programs … © 2008 - 2026 America Walks | PO Box 30833, Seattle, WA 98113 | EIN 04-3401323 | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
• Start tag: <footer class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]
• Bounding box: x = 240, y = 4629, width = 1440, height = 400

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 325 of the America Walks page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The contentinfo role is unnecessary for element footer.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)