Home - Defence Forces

Current Recruitment Opportunities - Defence Forces

ARW - Defence Forces

GOC 2 Brigade - Defence Forces

Defence Forces Barracks - Defence Forces

Who We Are - Defence Forces

Page not found - 404 Error page

About the ARW - Defence Forces

Selection Course - 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

January 2026

December 2025

Defence Forces of Ireland

Title / URL	Issues
Home - Defence Forceswww.military.ie/en/	1
Current Recruitment Opportunities - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/careers/current-competitions/	1
ARW - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/army/arw/	1
GOC 2 Brigade - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/army/2-brigade/goc-2-brigade/	1
Defence Forces Barracks - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/contact-us/defence-forces-barracks1/	1
Home - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/	1
Who We Are - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/	1
Page not found - 404 Error pagemilitary.ie/invented-url-for-404-page/	1
About the ARW - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/army/arw/about-the-arw/	1
Selection Course - Defence Forcesmilitary.ie/en/who-we-are/army/arw/selection-course/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Defence Forces of Ireland

Where this issue has occurred