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Counselling | Action Mental Health

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Home | Action Mental Health

When specifying accessible names via `aria-labelledby`, ensure that the 
label elements exist.

## Explanation

Accessible names are required for many parts of a page, including form controls.
One way to accomplish this is to use `aria-labelledby` to specify the ID or IDs of 
other elements which contain a label. For example:

```html
<h2 id="dialog-labell">Important message!</h2>
<dialog aria-labelledby="dialog-label">
```

In this example, the `aria-labelledby` for the `<dialog>` points to an ID of `dialog-label`,
which doesn't exist. The heading it refers to instead has an ID of `dialog-labell`, presumably 
a typo.

## Why this matters

It isn't usually clear when an accessible name is broken, even during user testing.

This check helps to identify where an element clearly intended to have a label, but
that label is missing.

When a label is broken, it may be impossible for a user of assistive technologies
to understand what that element does.

missing-aria-labelled-by

September 2025

August 2025

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Services \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/services/	1
	AMH News \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/category/news/	1
	Search \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/search/	1
	I am someone \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/iamsomeone/	1
	Our 2022/2023 Impact Report \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/impact-report-22-23/	1
	Fundraising \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/fundraising/	1
	Events \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/events/	1
	Counselling \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/services/counselling/	1
	Workplace Mental Health Training and Consultancy \| Action Mental Health Workplace Mental Health Training and Consultancywww.amh.org.uk/services/amh-works/	1
	Home \| Action Mental Healthwww.amh.org.uk/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Action Mental Health

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