Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 972 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 972

• Tag name: ARTICLE
• Text: MAY 9TH 2026 … ADD TO MY CALENDAR
• Start tag: <article role="article" class="node node--type-event node--sticky">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 972, y = 3481, width = 442, height = 545

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 972 of the Portland State University 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)