Contact us | HSBC Holdings plc

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Careers | HSBC Holdings plc

Accessibility | HSBC Holdings plc

Our people and communities | HSBC Holdings plc

China’s uneven recovery | Insight | HSBC Holdings plc

The end of the beginning | Insight | HSBC Holdings plc

Group structure | HSBC Holdings plc

Investing in HSBC | HSBC Holdings plc

Leadership and governance | HSBC Holdings plc

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

June 2024

May 2024

HSBC

Title / URL	Issues
Contact us \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/contact-us	3
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.hsbc.com/	2
Careers \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/careers	2
Accessibility \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/accessibility	1
Our people and communities \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/who-we-are/our-people-and-communities	1
China’s uneven recovery \| Insight \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/insight/topics/chinas-uneven-recovery	1
The end of the beginning \| Insight \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/insight/topics/the-end-of-the-beginning	1
Group structure \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/investors/investing-in-hsbc/group-structure	1
Investing in HSBC \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/investors/investing-in-hsbc	1
Leadership and governance \| HSBC Holdings plcwww.hsbc.com/who-we-are/leadership-and-governance	1

Fix missing ARIA description IDs

HSBC

Where this issue has occurred