AES | Global Energy Companies

Blogs | AES

Our people | AES

Careers with AES | AES

Environmental Programs | Green Living

Search jobs | AES Vault

Relief Efforts | Services For Our Communities

Page not found | AES

AES’ Energy4Talent Program | Renewable & Clean Energy Jobs

AES Board of Directors | AES Corporation Governance

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

August 2025

July 2025

AES Corp

Title / URL	Issues
AES \| Global Energy Companieswww.aes.com/	3
Blogs \| AESwww.aes.com/blogs	3
Our people \| AESwww.aes.com/our-people	3
Careers with AES \| AESwww.aes.com/careers	3
Environmental Programs \| Green Livingwww.aes.com/environment	3
Search jobs \| AES Vaultwww.aes.com/careers/search-jobs	3
Relief Efforts \| Services For Our Communitieswww.aes.com/relief-efforts	3
Page not found \| AESwww.aes.com/invented-url-for-404-page	3
AES’ Energy4Talent Program \| Renewable & Clean Energy Jobswww.aes.com/careers/energy4talent	3
AES Board of Directors \| AES Corporation Governancewww.aes.com/investors/governance	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

AES Corp

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