Kilotest: Diagnoses of summary has explicit role violation by HTML element 923 on Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot detect details
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker)
• Violations: 1
• Violators: 1

About the violator

• Tag name: SUMMARY
• Text: English
• Start tag: <summary id="button-mobile_header__language__modal" class="mobile_header__language__button" role="button" aria-controls="hrw-modal--mobile_header__language__modal" data-event-action="Language dropdown toggle">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/details[1]/summary[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the summary has explicit role issue for HTML element 923 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. The role attribute must not be used on any summary element that is a summary for its parent details element.

   Rule engine: Html Checker (World Wide Web Consortium)