Investors

News and Stories

Our history

Investor disclaimer

Sustainability reporting

Offshore

Cenovus Energy

Governance

Upgrading & refining

Oil sands & heavy oil

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

August 2025

July 2025

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Title / URL	Issues
Investorswww.cenovus.com/Investors	6
News and Storieswww.cenovus.com/News-and-Stories	6
Our historywww.cenovus.com/Our-company/Our-history	6
Investor disclaimerwww.cenovus.com/disclaimerir	6
Sustainability reportingwww.cenovus.com/Sustainability/Reporting	6
Offshorewww.cenovus.com/Our-operations/Offshore	6
Cenovus Energywww.cenovus.com/	6
Governancewww.cenovus.com/Our-company/Governance	6
Upgrading & refiningwww.cenovus.com/Our-operations/Upgrading-and-refining	6
Oil sands & heavy oilwww.cenovus.com/Our-operations/Oil-sands-and-heavy-oil	6

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Where this issue has occurred