Community spaces | City of Charles Sturt

Annual report and quarterly report | City of Charles Sturt

Employee Testimonials | City of Charles Sturt

Council documents | City of Charles Sturt

City of Charles Sturt | City of Charles Sturt

Public notices | City of Charles Sturt

About our city | City of Charles Sturt

Our council | City of Charles Sturt

Agendas and minutes | City of Charles Sturt

Council | City of Charles Sturt

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

June 2025

May 2025

City of Charles Sturt

	Title / URL	Issues
	Community spaces \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/community/community-spaces	4
	Annual report and quarterly report \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/council-documents/annualreport	4
	Employee Testimonials \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/careers/employee-testimonials	4
	Council documents \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/council-documents	4
	City of Charles Sturt \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/	4
	Public notices \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/role-of-council/public-notices	4
	About our city \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/about-our-city	4
	Our council \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/role-of-council/our-council	4
	Agendas and minutes \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council/council-documents/agendas-and-minutes	4
	Council \| City of Charles Sturtwww.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/council	4

Ensure form controls have labels

City of Charles Sturt

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