A-Z | Dundee City Council

Boat Hire Licences | Dundee City Council

Countryside Ranger Service | Dundee City Council

Building Standards | Dundee City Council

What's On - Just Added | Dundee City Council

Bins & Recycling | Dundee City Council

Chief Executive's Services | Dundee City 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

February 2026

January 2026

Dundee City Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	A-Z \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/a2z/k	1
	A-Z \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/a2z/p	1
	A-Z \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/a2z/m	1
	Boat Hire Licences \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/licensing/boat-hire-licences	1
	Countryside Ranger Service \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/countryside-ranger-service	1
	Building Standards \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/service-area/city-development/planning-and-economic-development/building-standards	1
	A-Z \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/a2z/o	1
	What's On - Just Added \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/justadded	1
	Bins & Recycling \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/services/bins-%26-recycling	1
	Chief Executive's Services \| Dundee City Councilwww.dundeecity.gov.uk/service-area/chief-executive/chief-executives-services	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Dundee City Council

Where this issue has occurred