Contact us | Gloucester City Council

Discounts | Gloucester City Council

Apprentices and Youth Trainees | Gloucester City Council

Council Tax Support | Gloucester City Council

Licensing & Regulations | Gloucester City Council

Parking, Transport and Streets | Gloucester City Council

Carers | Gloucester City Council

Care Leavers | Gloucester City Council

Council Tax bands | Gloucester City Council

Council Tax | Gloucester City 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

January 2026

December 2025

Gloucester City Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Contact us \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/about-the-council/contact-us/	31
	Discounts \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts/	1
	Apprentices and Youth Trainees \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts/apprentices-and-youth-trainees/	1
	Council Tax Support \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-support/	1
	Licensing & Regulations \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/licensing-regulations/	1
	Parking, Transport and Streets \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/parking-transport-and-streets/	1
	Carers \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts/carers/	1
	Care Leavers \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts/care-leavers/	1
	Council Tax bands \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-bands/	1
	Council Tax \| Gloucester City Councilwww.gloucester.gov.uk/council-tax/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Gloucester City Council

Where this issue has occurred