Kilotest: Diagnoses of role invalid violation by HTML element 452 on Wikimedia Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:16 by job 261007T2305-8ye
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1201
  • Violators: 392
  • Issues: 68
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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 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Axe)
• Violations: 4
• Violators: 4

About the violator

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Wikimedia Foundation … Wikimedia Foundation Statement on US staff unionization
• Start tag: <li class="wp-block-post post-83684 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-wikimedia-foundation content-language-en_us splide__slide is-visible" id="splide01-slide03" role="group" aria-roledescription="slide" aria-label="3 of 9" style="margin-right: 3.34%; width: calc(31.1067%);">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/main[1]/div[5]/div[2]/div[2]/ul[1]/li[3]
• Bounding box: x = 1187, y = 2223, width = 373, height = 449
• Reported by Axe

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the role invalid issue for HTML element 452 of the Wikimedia Foundation page.

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

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: aria-allowed-role