Coastal Bend Events | CBC

Dual Credit | CBC

Residence Life | CBC

Spinning a Story, Weaving a Tale | CBC

News | CBC

Testing Requirements | CBC

Marketing & Public Relations | CBC

Cost & Aid | CBC

CBC Beeville | CBC

CBC Alice | CBC

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 2026

December 2025

Coastal Bend College

	Title / URL	Issues
	Coastal Bend Events \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/events/index.html	3
	Dual Credit \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/instruction/dual_credit/index.html	1
	Residence Life \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/student_success_engagement/residence_life/index.html	1
	Spinning a Story, Weaving a Tale \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/events/2025/11/spinning-a-story-weaving-a-tale.html	1
	News \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/news/index.html	1
	Testing Requirements \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/instruction/dual_credit/testing_requirements.html	1
	Marketing & Public Relations \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/marketing_public_relations/index.html	1
	Cost & Aid \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/cost-aid.html	1
	CBC Beeville \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/sites/beeville/index.html	1
	CBC Alice \| CBCwww.coastalbend.edu/sites/alice/index.html	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Coastal Bend College

Where this issue has occurred