Kilotest: Diagnoses of role redundant violation by HTML element 74 on Portland City Club page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.pdxcityclub.org/
• Tested 0 days ago on 2026-10-10 at 05:30 by job 261010T0528-evq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 718
  • Violators: 203
  • Issues: 53
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Page includes unnecessary code
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Pour)
• Violations: 6
• Violators: 4

About the violator

• Tag name: HEADER
• Text: Member Login … About Us What We Do Events Membership Support Us
• Start tag: <header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner" style="width: 1920px;">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 166
• Reported by Accessibility Checker

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the role redundant issue for HTML element 74 of the Portland City Club page.

1. The explicitly-assigned ARIA role "banner" is redundant with the implicit role of the element <header>

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_role_redundant