The Spring Swing | Event, City of Canterbury Bankstown

Join the Mayor’s Lights Out Sleepout! | Event, City of Canterbury Bankstown

Connect Magazine – Winter edition 2025 | City of Canterbury Bankstown

WIN a kid's birthday party! | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Mayor and Councillors | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Reporting local issues | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Booking a household Clean-Up | City of Canterbury Bankstown

What's On | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Your Rates | City of Canterbury Bankstown

Home | 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

October 2025

September 2025

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	The Spring Swing \| Event, City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/spring-swing	2
	Join the Mayor’s Lights Out Sleepout! \| Event, City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/join-mayors-lights-out-sleepout	2
	Connect Magazine – Winter edition 2025 \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/connect-magazine-winter-edition-2025	2
	WIN a kid's birthday party! \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/win-kids-birthday-party	2
	Mayor and Councillors \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/your-council/mayor-and-councillors	2
	Reporting local issues \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/reporting-local-issues	2
	Booking a household Clean-Up \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/booking-household-clean	2
	What's On \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/whats-on	2
	Your Rates \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/residents/your-rates	2
	Home \| City of Canterbury Bankstownwww.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

Where this issue has occurred