Parents at JBU

Academics at John Brown University

About John Brown University

Office of the Registrar | John Brown University

Online Undergraduate Program at John Brown University

Major in Kinesiology

Giving to JBU

Majors & Degree Programs

First time visit: View without clicking anything

John Brown University: A Christian College in Northwest Arkansas

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

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John Brown University

Title / URL	Issues
Parents at JBUwww.jbu.edu/parents/	7
Academics at John Brown Universitywww.jbu.edu/academics/	7
About John Brown Universitywww.jbu.edu/about/	7
Office of the Registrar \| John Brown Universitywww.jbu.edu/academics/registrar/	7
Online Undergraduate Program at John Brown Universitywww.jbu.edu/online-undergraduate/	7
Major in Kinesiologywww.jbu.edu/majors/kinesiology/	7
Giving to JBUwww.jbu.edu/giving/	7
Majors & Degree Programswww.jbu.edu/majors/	7
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.jbu.edu/	7
John Brown University: A Christian College in Northwest Arkansaswww.jbu.edu/	7

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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