About exporting | How to export | EDC

About us | EDC

EDC Company InSight | EDC

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Learn about exporting | EDC

Export Development Canada (EDC)

Connect with global companies | EDC Business Connection Program

EDC solutions | Export Development Canada

EDC Economics: Connecting Canada to the world | EDC

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

Export Development Canada

Title / URL	Issues
About exporting \| How to export \| EDCwww.edc.ca/en/about-exporting.html	4
About us \| EDCwww.edc.ca/en/about-us.html	3
EDC Company InSight \| EDCwww.edc.ca/en/tool/company-insight.html	3
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.edc.ca/	3
Learn about exporting \| EDCwww.edc.ca/en/tool/edc-learn.html	3
Export Development Canada (EDC)www.edc.ca/	3
Connect with global companies \| EDC Business Connection Programwww.edc.ca/en/tool/connections.html	3
EDC solutions \| Export Development Canadawww.edc.ca/en/solutions.html	3
EDC Economics: Connecting Canada to the world \| EDCwww.edc.ca/en/economic-resources.html	3
404www.edc.ca/invented-url-for-404-page	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Export Development Canada

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