Your privacy | Royal Free London

Corporate information | Royal Free London

Quality and patient safety | Royal Free London

Patient First | Royal Free London

Making a show of myself | Royal Free London

Fire extinguished | Royal Free London

Become a member of our trust | Royal Free London

The Royal Free London group | Royal Free London

Council of governors | Royal Free London

Home sweet home care | Royal Free London

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

August 2025

July 2025

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Your privacy \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/your-privacy	3
Corporate information \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/corporate-information	3
Quality and patient safety \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-and-patient-safety	3
Patient First \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/north-mid-patient-first	3
Making a show of myself \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/news/making-show-myself	3
Fire extinguished \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/news/fire-extinguished	3
Become a member of our trust \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/become-member-our-trust	3
The Royal Free London group \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/royal-free-london-group	3
Council of governors \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/about-us/council-governors	3
Home sweet home care \| Royal Free Londonwww.royalfree.nhs.uk/news/home-sweet-home-care	3

Ensure form controls have labels

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred