Reporting a repair : Bournville Village Trust

Contact : Bournville Village Trust

ASB support : Bournville Village Trust

Application guidance : Bournville Village Trust

Working for us : Bournville Village Trust

Page not found : Bournville Village Trust

FAQs renting a home : Bournville Village Trust

Home and building safety : Bournville Village Trust

Repurposing the Beeches : Bournville Village Trust

Sheltered and extra care homes : Bournville Village Trust

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

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Title / URL	Issues
Reporting a repair : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/your-home/reporting-a-repair/	4
Contact : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/contact/	3
ASB support : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/help-and-support/asb-support/	3
Application guidance : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/careers/application-guidance/	2
Working for us : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/careers/working-for-us/	2
Page not found : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	2
FAQs renting a home : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/find-a-home/faqs-renting-a-home/	2
Home and building safety : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/your-home/home-and-building-safety/	2
Repurposing the Beeches : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/uncategorized/repurposing-the-beeches/	2
Sheltered and extra care homes : Bournville Village Trustwww.bvt.org.uk/find-a-home/sheltered-and-extra-care-homes/	2

Ensure form controls have labels

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