Kilotest: Diagnoses of ancestor and descendant roles incompatible violation by HTML element 1542 on US Digital Response volunteer page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://form.jotform.com/201466372336151
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:17 by job 261007T2305-iih
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 10
  • Violations: 1272
  • Violators: 927
  • Issues: 37
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User may misunderstand or be blocked from exposure to an item
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker)
• Violations: 56
• Violators: 56

About the violator

• Tag name: TD
• Text: 3
• Start tag: <td tabindex="-1" class="weekend" role="gridcell" aria-selected="false">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[1]/td[7]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the ancestor and descendant roles incompatible issue for HTML element 1542 of the US Digital Response volunteer page.

1. The role attribute must not be used on a td element which has a table ancestor with no role attribute, or with a role attribute whose value is table, grid, or treegrid.

   Rule engine: Html Checker (World Wide Web Consortium)