Teaching & Learning

Timetables – Registration Guides and Timetables

Student Accounts & Financial Aid

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Admissions @ Brock

Register for spring/summer classes – Admissions @ Brock

Alumni Relations

Campus Safety Services

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

December 2025

November 2025

Brock University

	Title / URL	Issues
	Teaching & Learningbrocku.ca/teaching-learning/	1
	Timetables – Registration Guides and Timetablesbrocku.ca/guides-and-timetables/timetables/	1
	Student Accounts & Financial Aidbrocku.ca/safa/	1
	Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairsbrocku.ca/graduate-studies/	1
	Admissions @ Brockbrocku.ca/admissions/	1
	Register for spring/summer classes – Admissions @ Brockbrocku.ca/admissions/springsummer/	1
	Alumni Relationsbrocku.ca/alumni/	1
	Campus Safety Servicesbrocku.ca/campus-safety/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Brock University

Where this issue has occurred