Kilotest: Diagnoses of role invalid violation by HTML element 186 on Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy donate page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.iatp.org/donate
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:51 by job 261007T2132-8bj
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 276
  • Violators: 103
  • Issues: 42
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on the nature of an item
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 4 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + SureA11y)
• Violations: 7
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: FOOTER
• Text: The Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP) is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization. EIN: 36-3501938 … Donate
• Start tag: <footer class="content-footer" role="complementary">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/footer[1]
• Bounding box: x = 330, y = 2353, width = 1260, height = 0
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the role invalid issue for HTML element 186 of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy donate page.

1. ARIA role should be appropriate for the element; ARIA role complementary is not allowed for given element

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: aria-allowed-role

2. The ARIA role 'complementary' is not valid for the element <footer>

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_valid