Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 186 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the Hesperian Health Guides page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 5 days ago by job cp5 on 2026-08-26 at 20:16

About HTML element 186

• Tag name: NAV
• Text: HOME … APPS
• Start tag: <nav class="main_menu" data-selectname="Select a page" role="navigation" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[3]/nav[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]

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 186 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The navigation role is unnecessary for element nav.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)