Local Housing Allowance

Parks and open spaces

Discretionary Housing Payments

Press and media enquiries for Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Anti-fraud and corruption

Household waste recycling centre

Local Development Scheme

News

Local Plan update

Report damage to a bus shelter form

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

January 2026

December 2025

Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Local Housing Allowancewww.basingstoke.gov.uk/LHA?feedback=Y	1
Parks and open spaceswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/parks?feedback=Y	1
Discretionary Housing Paymentswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/dhp?feedback=Y	1
Press and media enquiries for Basingstoke and Deane Borough Councilwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/media?feedback=Y	1
Anti-fraud and corruptionwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/fraud?feedback=Y	1
Household waste recycling centrewww.basingstoke.gov.uk/hwrc?feedback=Y	1
Local Development Schemewww.basingstoke.gov.uk/LDS?feedback=Y	1
Newswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/news?feedback=Y	1
Local Plan updatewww.basingstoke.gov.uk/lpu?feedback=Y	1
Report damage to a bus shelter formwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/bus-shelter-form	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred