Parks - Gateshead Council

Help and advice - Gateshead Council

Mental Capacity - Gateshead Council

Complaints - Gateshead Council

Asbestos in your home - Gateshead Council

Community safety - Gateshead Council

Roadworks - Gateshead Council

Send an enquiry, complaint or compliment - Gateshead Council

Tell us about a change - Gateshead Council

Local history - Gateshead Council

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

November 2025

October 2025

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Parks - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/1831/Parks	3
	Help and advice - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/30282/Help-and-advice	2
	Mental Capacity - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/11644/Mental-Capacity	2
	Complaints - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/10523/Complaints	2
	Asbestos in your home - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/19898/Asbestos-in-your-home	2
	Community safety - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/1835/Community-safety	2
	Roadworks - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/1832/Roadworks	2
	Send an enquiry, complaint or compliment - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/28261/Send-an-enquiry-complaint-or-compliment	2
	Tell us about a change - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/2642/Tell-us-about-a-change	2
	Local history - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/9647/Local-history	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred