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Information for professionals - British Heart Foundation - BHF

Latest news from the BHF - BHF

The biggest independent funder of heart and circulatory research in the UK - BHF

Contact us or get help - BHF

British Heart Foundation - Sign in - BHF

What does the British Heart Foundation do? - BHF

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Shop locally or online - BHF

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

June 2025

May 2025

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Search - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/search	2
	Search - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/search?keyword=&tab=locations&servicetype=book-bank,books-music-shop,clothing-bank,clothing-shop,furniture-electrical-store,pop-up-shop&run=1	2
	Information for professionals - British Heart Foundation - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/for-professionals	1
	Latest news from the BHF - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf	1
	The biggest independent funder of heart and circulatory research in the UK - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/	1
	Contact us or get help - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/contact-us	1
	British Heart Foundation - Sign in - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/account/sign-in?item=/my-account	1
	What does the British Heart Foundation do? - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.bhf.org.uk/	1
	Shop locally or online - BHFwww.bhf.org.uk/shop	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

British Heart foundation

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