Student Activities

Georgia Institute of Technology

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Explore the Main Campus

Academic Environment

Prospective Students

Campus Life

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

December 2024

November 2024

Title / URL	Issues
Student Activitieswww.gatech.edu/life/student-activities	52
Georgia Institute of Technologywww.gatech.edu/	25
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.gatech.edu/	25
Explore the Main Campuswww.gatech.edu/life/campus-life	13
Academic Environmentwww.gatech.edu/academics-education	9
Prospective Studentswww.gatech.edu/prospective-students	8
Campus Lifewww.gatech.edu/life	8

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Georgia Institute of Technology

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