Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 70 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 70

• Tag name: HEADER
• Text: HEALTHWIKI … DONATE
• Start tag: <header id="header" class="all_colors header_color light_bg_color av_header_top av_logo_left av_main_nav_header av_menu_right av_custom av_header_sticky_disabled av_header_shrinking_disabled av_header_stretch av_mobile_menu_phone av_header_searchicon av_header_unstick_top_disabled av_bottom_nav_disabled av_alternate_logo_active av_header_border_disabled" role="banner" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPHeader">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 83

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 70 of the Hesperian Health Guides 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)