Page not found | Cobalt Housing

Good Help Hub Croxteth | Cobalt Housing

Finding a home | Cobalt Housing

Cobalt Housing | Cobalt Housing

My Community | Cobalt Housing

Cobalt Plus | Cobalt Housing

Your tenancy | Cobalt Housing

Right to buy and right to acquire | Cobalt Housing

HomeLINK smart home trial | Cobalt Housing

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

Cobalt Housing Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Page not found \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	2
Good Help Hub Croxteth \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/communities/goodhelphub/	1
Finding a home \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/finding-a-home/	1
Cobalt Housing \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/category/cobalt-housing/	1
My Community \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/category/my-community/	1
Cobalt Plus \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/communities/cobalt-plus/	1
My Community \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/communities/	1
Your tenancy \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/your-home/your-tenancy/	1
Right to buy and right to acquire \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/your-home/right-to-buy/	1
HomeLINK smart home trial \| Cobalt Housingcobalthousing.org.uk/your-home/homelink/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Cobalt Housing Limited

Where this issue has occurred