Kilotest: Diagnoses of role invalid violation by HTML element 169 on Institute for Progress US Energy Data Electricity Demand page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://usenergydata.org/electricity-demand/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:52 by job 261007T2132-e35
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 10
  • Violations: 1524
  • Violators: 204
  • Issues: 40
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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 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
• Violations: 1
• Violators: 1

About the violator

• Tag name: FOOTER
• Text: TOPICS … The charts are licensed under CC-BY-SA. Third-party materials, including some underlying data, are subject to third-party licenses.
• Start tag: <footer class="footer">
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 7329, width = 1920, height = 473
• Reported by Accessibility Checker

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the role invalid issue for HTML element 169 of the Institute for Progress US Energy Data Electricity Demand page.

1. Element with "contentinfo" role is present without an element with "main" role

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_contentinfo_misuse