Check the label | Food Standards Agency

Food hygiene for consumers | Food Standards Agency

Find contact details | Food Standards Agency

Food hygiene | Food Standards Agency

Cookies on food.gov.uk | Food Standards Agency

Food safety | Food Standards Agency

Chilling | Food Standards Agency

Salmonella | Food Standards Agency

Homepage | Food Standards Agency

Page not found | Food Standards Agency

When using accessible descriptions (`aria-describedby`), ensure that the 
descriptions exist.

## Explanation

ARIA descriptions are commonly used to add supplementary information to 
elements in a page, especially form controls. For example:

```html
<input type="email" aria-describedby="email-help">
<p id="email-helpp">Enter your work email address</p>
```

In this example, the `aria-describedby` for the field points to an ID of `email-help`,
which doesn't exist. The paragraph it refers to instead has an ID of `email-helpp`, presumably 
a typo.

## Why this matters

It isn't usually clear when an accessible description is broken, even during user testing.

This check helps to identify where an element clearly intended to have a description, but
that description is missing.

When a description is broken, key information about that element may be omitted from 
assistive technologies.

missing-aria-described-by

June 2025

May 2025

Food Standards Agency

Title / URL	Issues
Check the label \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/check-the-label	1
Food hygiene for consumers \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/consumer-advice/food-hygiene	1
Find contact details \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/contact/consumers/find-details	1
Food hygiene \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/food-hygiene	1
Cookies on food.gov.uk \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/cookie-consent?dest=/home	1
Food safety \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/food-safety	1
Chilling \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/chilling	1
Salmonella \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/salmonella	1
Homepage \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/	1
Page not found \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1

Fix missing ARIA description IDs

Food Standards Agency

Where this issue has occurred