Exporting guide to Japan - great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

Report a trade barrier Welcome to great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

Exporting guide to Zimbabwe - great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

Cookies policy | Department for Business and Trade - great.gov.uk

Markets

Exporting guide to France - great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

Exporting guide to El Salvador - great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

Join the Digital Exporting Programme

Exporting guide to Dominica - great.gov.uk - great.gov.uk

When using accessible descriptions (`aria-describedby`), ensure that the 
descriptions exist.

## Explanation

ARIA descriptions are commonly used to add supplementary information to 
elements in a page, especially form controls. For example:

```html
<input type="email" aria-describedby="email-help">
<p id="email-helpp">Enter your work email address</p>
```

In this example, the `aria-describedby` for the field points to an ID of `email-help`,
which doesn't exist. The paragraph it refers to instead has an ID of `email-helpp`, presumably 
a typo.

## Why this matters

It isn't usually clear when an accessible description is broken, even during user testing.

This check helps to identify where an element clearly intended to have a description, but
that description is missing.

When a description is broken, key information about that element may be omitted from 
assistive technologies.

missing-aria-described-by

July 2025

June 2025

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

	Title / URL	Issues
	Exporting guide to Japan - great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/markets/japan/	10
	Report a trade barrier Welcome to great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/report-trade-barrier/	10
	Exporting guide to Zimbabwe - great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/markets/zimbabwe/	10
	Cookies policy \| Department for Business and Trade - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/cookies-policy/	10
	Marketswww.great.gov.uk/markets/	10
	Exporting guide to France - great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/markets/france/	10
	Marketswww.great.gov.uk/markets/?page=6	10
	Exporting guide to El Salvador - great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/markets/el-salvador/	10
	Join the Digital Exporting Programmewww.great.gov.uk/campaign-site/digital-exporting-programme/	10
	Exporting guide to Dominica - great.gov.uk - great.gov.ukwww.great.gov.uk/markets/dominica/	10

Fix missing ARIA description IDs

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Where this issue has occurred