Test Workday

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Digital Services Specialists | Kainos

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Explore Kainos Smart for Workday

Digital Transformation in Government | Kainos

Pulsora

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

October 2025

September 2025

Kainos

	Title / URL	Issues
	Test Workdaywww.kainos.com/workday/services/testing	4
	Kainos \| Workday partners and consulting \| Kainoswww.kainos.com/workday	3
	Digital Services Specialists \| Kainoswww.kainos.com/digital-services	3
	Deploy Workdaywww.kainos.com/workday/services/deployment	3
	Workday Auditing & Compliancewww.kainos.com/workday/services/auditing-workday	3
	Smart Shield \| Intelligent Workday data maskingwww.kainos.com/workday/products/smart-shield	2
	Kainos Smart Test \| Built on Workday Test Automationwww.kainos.com/workday/products/smart-test	2
	Explore Kainos Smart for Workdaywww.kainos.com/workday/products/smart	2
	Digital Transformation in Government \| Kainoswww.kainos.com/industries/government	2
	Pulsorawww.kainos.com/workday/services/pulsora	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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