Contact Us - Defence Forces

Air Corps - Defence Forces

Home - Defence Forces

Who We Are - Defence Forces

Page not found - 404 Error page

Naval Service - Defence Forces

The Fleet - Defence Forces

GOC Air Corps - Defence Forces

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

September 2025

August 2025

Defence Forces of Ireland

	Title / URL	Issues
	Contact Us - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/contact-us/	1
	Air Corps - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/air-corps/	1
	Home - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/	1
	Who We Are - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/	1
	Home - Defence Forceswww.military.ie/en/	1
	Page not found - 404 Error pagewww.military.ie/invented-url-for-404-page/	1
	Naval Service - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/naval-service/	1
	The Fleet - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/naval-service/the-fleet/	1
	The Fleet - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/air-corps/the-fleet/	1
	GOC Air Corps - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/air-corps/goc-air-corps/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Defence Forces of Ireland

Where this issue has occurred