Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 617 on Tradeoffs page

Basics

About the Tradeoffs page

• URL: https://tradeoffs.org/
• Tested 30 days ago by job 5g2 on 2026-06-20 at 13:59

About HTML element 617

• Tag name: ASIDE
• Text: Tradeoffs is a nonprofit news organization on a mission to help America have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. … About Us Our Team Events Jobs Send Us a Story Suggestion or Tip
• Start tag: <aside class="widget-area footer-widgets" role="complementary" aria-label="Footer">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/aside[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 7071, width = 1920, height = 402

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 617 of the Tradeoffs 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)