Life with diabetes | How to fit diabetes around your life | Diabetes UK

Living with diabetes | How to manage diabetes | Diabetes UK

Recipe finder - Enjoy Food | Diabetes UK

Gestational diabetes | Complications | Diabetes UK

Diabetes treatments

Gestational diabetes | Causes and symptoms | Diabetes UK

Type 1 diabetes treatments | Diabetes UK

Technology and diabetes | Diabetes UK

Type 1 diabetes | Diabetes UK

Diabetes research | Our approach and projects | Diabetes 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

June 2025

May 2025

Diabetes UK

	Title / URL	Issues
	Life with diabetes \| How to fit diabetes around your life \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/living-with-diabetes/life-with-diabetes	3
	Living with diabetes \| How to manage diabetes \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/living-with-diabetes	3
	Recipe finder - Enjoy Food \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/living-with-diabetes/eating/recipes	3
	Gestational diabetes \| Complications \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/gestational-diabetes/complications	3
	Diabetes treatmentswww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/looking-after-diabetes/treatments	3
	Gestational diabetes \| Causes and symptoms \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/gestational-diabetes	3
	Type 1 diabetes treatments \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/type-1-diabetes/treatments	3
	Technology and diabetes \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/looking-after-diabetes/technology	3
	Type 1 diabetes \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/type-1-diabetes	3
	Diabetes research \| Our approach and projects \| Diabetes UKwww.diabetes.org.uk/our-research	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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