Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 1044 on Metropolitan Transportation Authority page

Basics

About the Metropolitan Transportation Authority page

• URL: https://www.mta.info/
• Tested 30 days ago by job oyu on 2026-06-20 at 13:49

About HTML element 1044

• Tag name: FOOTER
• Text: THE MTA … Translate
• Start tag: <footer class="footer container-fluid" role="contentinfo">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 4299, width = 1920, height = 306

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 rule engines diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 1044 of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 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)