Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 591 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the Hesperian Health Guides page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 4 days ago by job glp on 2026-05-28 at 22:54

About HTML element 591

• Tag name: FOOTER
• Text: © Copyright - Hesperian Health Guides | Hesperian is a tax exempt 501(c)3 organization | Privacy Policy -
• Start tag: <footer class="container_wrap socket_color" id="socket" role="contentinfo" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPFooter">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/footer[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 2793, width = 1920, height = 52

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 591 of the Hesperian Health Guides 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)