Members - Landing Page - GRCC

Contact Us - GRCC

Our People - GRCC

Donate

Our Services - GRCC

Home - GRCC

About Us - GRCC

Testimonials - GRCC

Health and Wellbeing

GRCC in the News - GRCC

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

July 2025

June 2025

Gloucestershire Rural Housing Association Limited

	Title / URL	Issues
	Members - Landing Page - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/home/members-landing-page	4
	Contact Us - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/about-us/contact-us	4
	Our People - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/staff-team/our-people	2
	Donatewww.grcc.org.uk/donations/donate	2
	Our Services - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/what-we-do/what-we-do	2
	Home - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/	2
	About Us - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/about-us/about-us	2
	Testimonials - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/about-us/testimonials	2
	Health and Wellbeingwww.grcc.org.uk/what-we-do/health-and-wellbeing	2
	GRCC in the News - GRCCwww.grcc.org.uk/grcc-in-the-news/grcc-in-the-news	2

Ensure form controls have labels

Gloucestershire Rural Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred