Business in Yarra | Yarra City Council

Careers | Yarra City Council

Council tenders | Yarra City Council

Living in Yarra | Yarra City Council

What's on in Yarra | Yarra City Council

Transport, cycling, parking and roads | Yarra City Council

Economic research | Yarra City Council

Yarra City Council

403 | Yarra City Council

Owning pets and animals in Yarra | Yarra City Council

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

August 2025

July 2025

	Title / URL	Issues
	Business in Yarra \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/business	2
	Careers \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/about-us/council-jobs	2
	Council tenders \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/about-us/council-tenders	2
	Living in Yarra \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/residents/living-yarra	2
	What's on in Yarra \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/events	2
	Transport, cycling, parking and roads \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/residents/transport	2
	Economic research \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/business/economic-research	2
	Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/	2
	403 \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/social-media-guidelines	2
	Owning pets and animals in Yarra \| Yarra City Councilwww.yarracity.vic.gov.au/residents/pets-and-animals	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Yarra City Council

Where this issue has occurred