NSA 2025 - Tackling the Threat - National Crime Agency

Organised immigration crime - National Crime Agency

Contact Us - National Crime Agency

Links - National Crime Agency

NSA 2025 - Home - National Crime Agency

NSA 2025 - Firearms - National Crime Agency

NSA 2025 - Drugs - National Crime Agency

Homepage - National Crime Agency

Cymraeg - National Crime Agency

Firearms - National Crime Agency

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

December 2025

November 2025

National Crime Agency

	Title / URL	Issues
	NSA 2025 - Tackling the Threat - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-tackling-the-threat-2025	2
	Organised immigration crime - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/component/tags/tag/organised-immigration-crime	1
	Contact Us - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/missingpersons/contact-us	1
	Links - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/find-support/links	1
	NSA 2025 - Home - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-2025	1
	NSA 2025 - Firearms - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/threats-2025/nsa-firearms-2025	1
	NSA 2025 - Drugs - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/threats-2025/nsa-drugs-2025	1
	Homepage - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/missingpersons	1
	Cymraeg - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk//component/tags/tag/cymraeg	1
	Firearms - National Crime Agencywww.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/component/tags/tag/firearms	1

Ensure form controls have labels

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Where this issue has occurred