How we use your information

Governance and spending

Council tenants

Citizenship

Website and accessibility help

Trees, hedges and grass cutting

Archives, family and local history

Devolution

Cost of living - help for businesses

Terms and conditions

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

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	How we use your informationwww.eastriding.gov.uk/council/governance-and-spending/how-we-use-your-information/	1
	Governance and spendingwww.eastriding.gov.uk/council/governance-and-spending/	1
	Council tenantswww.eastriding.gov.uk/housing/council-tenants/	1
	Citizenshipwww.eastriding.gov.uk/living/citizenship/	1
	Website and accessibility helpwww.eastriding.gov.uk/council/website-and-accessibility-help/	1
	Trees, hedges and grass cuttingwww.eastriding.gov.uk/environment/tree-hedge-and-grass-cutting/	1
	Archives, family and local historywww.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/archives-family-and-local-history/	1
	Devolutionwww.eastriding.gov.uk/council/devolution/	1
	Cost of living - help for businesseswww.eastriding.gov.uk/business/cost-of-living-help-for-businesses/	1
	Terms and conditionswww.eastriding.gov.uk/council/governance-and-spending/terms-and-conditions/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Where this issue has occurred