HACC's Privacy Policy

About HACC

Types of Financial Aid

Contact a Welcome Center

Connect with HACC

Explore Your Career with Career Coach

Future Student Information

Can I Get Financial Aid?

HACC's York Campus

HACC's Lebanon Campus

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

January 2025

December 2024

Harrisburg Area Community College

Title / URL	Issues
HACC's Privacy Policywww.hacc.edu/AboutHACC/haccs-privacy-policy.cfm	11
About HACCwww.hacc.edu/AboutHACC/index.cfm	11
Types of Financial Aidwww.hacc.edu/Paying/TypesofAid/index.cfm	8
Contact a Welcome Centerwww.hacc.edu/Admissions/WelcomeCenter/index.cfm	8
Connect with HACCwww.hacc.edu/Admissions/Connect/index.cfm	8
Explore Your Career with Career Coachwww.hacc.edu/Admissions/Explore/index.cfm	8
Future Student Informationwww.hacc.edu/Admissions/index.cfm	8
Can I Get Financial Aid?www.hacc.edu/Paying/CanIGetAid/index.cfm	8
HACC's York Campuswww.hacc.edu/Campuses/YorkCampus/index.cfm	6
HACC's Lebanon Campuswww.hacc.edu/Campuses/LebanonCampus/index.cfm	6

Ensure form controls have labels

Harrisburg Area Community College

Where this issue has occurred