Environment | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Make a payment | City of Canterbury Bankstown

About Council | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Public art | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Business | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Translation disclaimer | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Reporting local issues | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Your Rates | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Business events | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Culture and Community | City of Canterbury Bankstown

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

September 2025

August 2025

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Environment \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/environment	2
	Make a payment \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/make-payment	2
	About Council \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/your-council/about-council	2
	Public art \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/culture-and-community/public-art	2
	Business \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/business	2
	Translation disclaimer \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/translation-disclaimer	2
	Reporting local issues \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/reporting-local-issues	2
	Your Rates \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/your-rates	2
	Business events \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/business/business-events	2
	Culture and Community \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/culture-and-community	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

Where this issue has occurred