2024 | News | Great Western Hospital | Great Western Hospital

Lists and registers | Great Western Hospital

Onsite amenities | Great Western Hospital

Library services | Great Western Hospital

Critical Care Unit (CCU) | Great Western Hospital

Leaving hospital | Great Western Hospital

Cancer Services | Great Western Hospital

Recruitment | GWH Recruitment

Looking after you | GWH Recruitment

Fertility Services | Great Western Hospital

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

June 2025

May 2025

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

	Title / URL	Issues
	2024 \| News \| Great Western Hospital \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/news/?year=2024	1
	Lists and registers \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/about-us/lists-and-registers/	1
	Onsite amenities \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/onsite-amenities/	1
	Library services \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/wards-and-services/library/library-services/	1
	Critical Care Unit (CCU) \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/wards-and-services/critical-care-unit-ccu/	1
	Leaving hospital \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/leaving-hospital/	1
	Cancer Services \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/wards-and-services/cancer-services/	1
	Recruitment \| GWH Recruitmentwww.gwh.nhs.uk/recruitment/	1
	Looking after you \| GWH Recruitmentwww.gwh.nhs.uk/recruitment/why-choose-us/looking-after-you/	1
	Fertility Services \| Great Western Hospitalwww.gwh.nhs.uk/wards-and-services/fertility-services/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred