Cisco Networking Products and Solutions - Cisco

Cisco Careers | Join us - #WeAreCisco - Cisco

Partners - Cisco

Contact Cisco - Cisco

Cisco Solutions for Technology, Industry, and Business Needs - Cisco

Cisco Products: Networking, Security, Data Center - Cisco

Partners Tools - Cisco

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Connect with a Cisco partner - Cisco

Services - Cisco

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

Cisco Systems

Title / URL	Issues
Cisco Networking Products and Solutions - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/index.html	7
Cisco Careers \| Join us - #WeAreCisco - Ciscowww.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/careers.html	7
Partners - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/partners/index.html	4
Contact Cisco - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/about/contact-cisco/index.html	1
Cisco Solutions for Technology, Industry, and Business Needs - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/solutions/index.html	1
Cisco Products: Networking, Security, Data Center - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/index.html	1
Partners Tools - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/partners/tools/index.html	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.cisco.com/	1
Connect with a Cisco partner - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/partners/connect-with-a-partner/index.html	1
Services - Ciscowww.cisco.com/site/us/en/services/index.html	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Cisco Systems

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