Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 89 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 89

• Tag name: NAV
• Text: HOME … DONATE
• Start tag: <nav class="main_menu" data-selectname="Select a page" role="navigation" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1362, y = 1, width = 506, height = 45

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 89 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The navigation role is unnecessary for element nav.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)