Council Staff | Barunga West Council

Elected Members | Barunga West Council

2021 | Barunga West Council

2022 | Barunga West Council

2023 | Barunga West Council

2025 | Barunga West Council

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

August 2025

July 2025

Barunga West Council

Title / URL	Issues
Council Staff \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/council/council-staff	4
Elected Members \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/council/elected-members	2
2021 \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/documents/media-releases/2021	1
2022 \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/documents/media-releases/2022	1
2023 \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/documents/media-releases/2023	1
2025 \| Barunga West Councilwww.barungawest.sa.gov.au/documents/media-releases/2025	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Barunga West Council

Where this issue has occurred