Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 78 on Portland State University page

Basics

About the Portland State University page

• URL: https://www.pdx.edu/
• Tested 24 days ago by job j3n on 2026-05-08 at 15:59

About HTML element 78

• Tag name: HEADER
• Text: Apply … CONTACT
• Start tag: <header role="banner">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 123

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 78 of the Portland State University page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The banner role is unnecessary for element header.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)