News Archive - Connect Housing

Aids & adaptations - Connect Housing

Report a repair - Connect Housing

Join the Customer Voice Group - Connect Housing

Home safety - Connect Housing

Homes to rent - Connect Housing

Support and advice - Connect Housing

Careers - Connect Housing

Your home Connect Housing

Thrive events space - Connect 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

February 2026

January 2026

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Title / URL	Issues
News Archive - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/news/	1
Aids & adaptations - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/your-home/aids-adaptations/	1
Report a repair - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/your-home/report-a-repair/	1
Join the Customer Voice Group - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/be-involved/join-the-cvg/	1
Home safety - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/your-home/home-safety/	1
Homes to rent - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/find-a-home/homes-to-rent/	1
Support and advice - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/support-advice/	1
Careers - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/careers/	1
Your home Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/your-home/	1
Thrive events space - Connect Housingwww.connecthousing.org.uk/your-community/thrive/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

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