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Choosing a memorial | Havant Borough Council

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Council Tax - Overview | Havant Borough Council

Privacy Policies | Havant Borough Council

Housing | Havant Borough Council

Have your say on our key projects and priorities | Havant Borough Council

Benefits | Havant Borough Council

Register to Vote | Havant Borough Council

Universal Credit | Havant Borough Council

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

Havant Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Page not found \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Choosing a memorial \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/cemeteries/choosing-memorial	1
Contact us \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/contact-us	1
Council Tax - Overview \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-overview	1
Privacy Policies \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/privacy-policies	1
Housing \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/housing	1
Have your say on our key projects and priorities \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/haveyoursay	1
Benefits \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/benefits	1
Register to Vote \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/elections/register-vote	1
Universal Credit \| Havant Borough Councilwww.havant.gov.uk/benefits/universal-credit	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Havant Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred