Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 330 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 330

• Tag name: ASIDE
• Text: Plan a Trip … Plan My Trip
• Start tag: <aside class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4" role="complementary">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/aside[1]
• Bounding box: x = 480, y = 391, width = 320, height = 534

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 330 of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority page.

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant

2. The complementary role is unnecessary for element aside.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)