Home - Dementia UK

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Continence - Dementia UK

Alzheimer's disease - Dementia UK

What is dementia? - Dementia UK

Hydration - Dementia UK

Eating and drinking - Dementia UK

Mouth care - Dementia UK

Staying healthy - Dementia UK

Vascular dementia - Dementia UK

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

May 2025

April 2025

Dementia UK

Title / URL	Issues
Home - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/	19
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.dementiauk.org/	19
Continence - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/health-advice/continence/	12
Alzheimer's disease - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/types-of-dementia/alzheimers-disease/	12
What is dementia? - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/about-dementia/what-is-dementia/	12
Hydration - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/health-advice/hydration/	11
Eating and drinking - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/health-advice/eating-and-drinking/	10
Mouth care - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/health-advice/mouth-care/	10
Staying healthy - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/health-advice/staying-healthy/	9
Vascular dementia - Dementia UKwww.dementiauk.org/information-and-support/types-of-dementia/vascular-dementia/	9

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Dementia UK

Where this issue has occurred