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Online Payments | kerrycoco.ie

A-Z | kerrycoco.ie

Environment | kerrycoco.ie

Awards | kerrycoco.ie

Vacant Property Grant | kerrycoco.ie

Architecture Kerry 2019 | kerrycoco.ie

Applications Refused | kerrycoco.ie

Water Quality | kerrycoco.ie

APB Pre-Application File | kerrycoco.ie

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

May 2025

April 2025

Kerry County Council

Title / URL	Issues
Adopted Budget 2021 \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/adopted-budget-2021/	1
Online Payments \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/online-payments/	1
A-Z \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/a-z/	1
Environment \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/environment/	1
Awards \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/tourism/awards/	1
Vacant Property Grant \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/vacant-property-grant/	1
Architecture Kerry 2019 \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/ak2019/	1
Applications Refused \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/applications-refused/	1
Water Quality \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/water/water-quality/	1
APB Pre-Application File \| kerrycoco.iewww.kerrycoco.ie/apb-pre-application-file/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Kerry County Council

Where this issue has occurred