Mouldings | Joinery | Howdens

Bathrooms | Rooms | Howdens

Utility Room | Howdens

Find a Depot | Depot Locator | Howdens

Skirting Boards | Joinery | Howdens

Door Fittings | Joinery | Howdens

Bedrooms | Howdens

Joinery | Howdens

About Us | Howdens

Rooms | Howdens

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

Howden Joinery

	Title / URL	Issues
	Mouldings \| Joinery \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/joinery/mouldings	3
	Bathrooms \| Rooms \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/rooms/bathrooms	3
	Utility Room \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/rooms/utility-room	3
	Find a Depot \| Depot Locator \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/find-a-depot/depot-a-z	3
	Skirting Boards \| Joinery \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/joinery/skirting-boards	3
	Door Fittings \| Joinery \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/joinery/door-fittings	3
	Bedrooms \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/bedrooms	3
	Joinery \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/joinery	3
	About Us \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/help-and-advice/about-us	3
	Rooms \| Howdenswww.howdens.com/rooms	3

Ensure form controls have labels

Howden Joinery

Where this issue has occurred