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 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

Food Standards Agency

Title / URL	Issues
Check the label \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/check-the-label	5
Food hygiene for consumers \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/consumer-advice/food-hygiene	5
Find contact details \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/contact/consumers/find-details	5
Food hygiene \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/food-hygiene	5
Cookies on food.gov.uk \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/cookie-consent?dest=/home	5
Food safety \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/food-safety	5
Chilling \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/chilling	5
Salmonella \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/salmonella	5
Homepage \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/	5
Page not found \| Food Standards Agencywww.food.gov.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	5

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Food Standards Agency

Where this issue has occurred