Policies and Publications – City of Lincoln Council

My Accounts – City of Lincoln Council

Bins and Recycling - Report a bin issue – City of Lincoln Council

Cost of Living Support – City of Lincoln Council

Procurement – City of Lincoln Council

Planning your own event – City of Lincoln Council

P – City of Lincoln Council

C – City of Lincoln Council

Council Housing - Apply for a council garage – City of Lincoln Council

Accessibility – City of Lincoln Council

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

January 2025

December 2024

City of Lincoln Council

Title / URL	Issues
Policies and Publications – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/policies-publications	1
My Accounts – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/m/accounts	1
Bins and Recycling - Report a bin issue – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/online/report-bin-issue	1
Cost of Living Support – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/benefits/cost-living-support	1
Procurement – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/council/procurement	1
Planning your own event – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/events-1/planning-event	1
P – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/p	1
C – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/c	1
Council Housing - Apply for a council garage – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/online/apply-council-garage	1
Accessibility – City of Lincoln Councilwww.lincoln.gov.uk/accessibility	1

Ensure form controls have labels

City of Lincoln Council

Where this issue has occurred