Contact us | Grant Thornton

Our credentials | Grant Thornton

About us | Grant Thornton

Cyber Defence Centre | Grant Thornton

Royalty and intellectual property (IP) audits | Grant Thornton

People advisory | Grant Thornton

Accounting services | Grant Thornton

International | Grant Thornton

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Governance advisory | Grant Thornton

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

Grant Thornton Llp

	Title / URL	Issues
	Contact us \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/contact-us/	21
	Our credentials \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/deals/our-credentials/	1
	About us \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/about-us/	1
	Cyber Defence Centre \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/insights/cyber-defence-centre/	1
	Royalty and intellectual property (IP) audits \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/audit-and-assurance/royalty-and-intellectual-property-ip-audits/	1
	People advisory \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/consulting/people-advisory/	1
	Accounting services \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/audit-and-assurance/accounting-services/	1
	International \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/international/	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.grantthornton.co.uk/	1
	Governance advisory \| Grant Thorntonwww.grantthornton.co.uk/services/consulting/governance-advisory/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Grant Thornton Llp

Where this issue has occurred