First time visit: View without clicking anything

Welcome to Edgecombe County

Edgecombe County, NC

Online Services

"404. The requested page/URL wasn't found on this site."

Touring Edgecombe

New Online Utility Billing

Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

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Edgecombe County, North Carolina

	Title / URL	Issues
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.edgecombecountync.gov/	7
	Welcome to Edgecombe Countywww.edgecombecountync.gov/	7
	Welcome to Edgecombe Countywww.edgecombecountync.gov/index.php	7
	Edgecombe County, NCwww.edgecombecountync.gov/calendar.php	3
	Online Serviceswww.edgecombecountync.gov/residents/online_services/index.php	1
	"404. The requested page/URL wasn't found on this site."www.edgecombecountync.gov/invented-url-for-404-page	1
	Edgecombe County, NCwww.edgecombecountync.gov/visitors/municipalities.php	1
	Touring Edgecombewww.edgecombecountync.gov/visitors/touring_edgecombe.php	1
	New Online Utility Billingwww.edgecombecountync.gov/news_detail_T5_R494.php	1
	Edgecombe County Sheriff's Officewww.edgecombecountync.gov/departments/sheriff/index.php	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Edgecombe County, North Carolina

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