Caterpillar | News

Caterpillar | Company | About Caterpillar

Caterpillar | Cat Financial

Caterpillar | Innovation | Leading-Edge Technology

Caterpillar | Leadership | Management Team | Governance & Organizational Structure

Caterpillar | Caterpillar Inc

Caterpillar | Cat Reman

Caterpillar | Brands

Caterpillar | Cat® Products, Parts, Services, Technology and Merchandise

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 2024

May 2024

Caterpillar Inc.

Title / URL	Issues
Caterpillar \| Newswww.caterpillar.com/en/news.html	4
Caterpillar \| Company \| About Caterpillarwww.caterpillar.com/en/company.html	3
Caterpillar \| Cat Financialwww.caterpillar.com/en/brands/cat-financial.html	2
Caterpillar \| Innovation \| Leading-Edge Technologywww.caterpillar.com/en/company/innovation.html	2
Caterpillar \| Leadership \| Management Team \| Governance & Organizational Structurewww.caterpillar.com/en/company/governance.html	2
Caterpillar \| Caterpillar Incwww.caterpillar.com/en.html	1
Caterpillar \| Cat Remanwww.caterpillar.com/en/brands/cat-reman.html	1
Caterpillar \| Caterpillar Incwww.caterpillar.com/	1
Caterpillar \| Brandswww.caterpillar.com/en/brands.html	1
Caterpillar \| Cat® Products, Parts, Services, Technology and Merchandisewww.caterpillar.com/en/brands/cat/products.html	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Caterpillar Inc.

Where this issue has occurred