Dementia treatments | Alzheimer's Society

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) | Alzheimer's Society

Dementia support services | Alzheimer's Society

Page not found | Alzheimer's Society

Types of dementia | Alzheimer's Society

Publications and factsheets | Alzheimer's Society

Dementia Support Forum - our online community | Alzheimer's Society

What is Alzheimer's disease? | Alzheimer's Society

Dementia Support Line | Alzheimer's Society

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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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Dementia treatments \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/treatments	3
	Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia/frontotemporal-dementia	3
	Dementia support services \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support	3
	Page not found \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	3
	Types of dementia \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia	3
	Publications and factsheets \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/publications-factsheets	3
	Dementia Support Forum - our online community \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/dementia-support-forum	3
	What is Alzheimer's disease? \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia/alzheimers-disease	3
	Dementia Support Line \| Alzheimer's Societywww.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/dementia-support-line	3
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.alzheimers.org.uk/	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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