School of Arts, Letters, Social Sciences

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School of Criminal Justice, Fire Science, and Emergency Services

School of Kinesiology and Psychology

School of Education

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School of Biological Sciences

Lake Superior State University Academics

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

August 2025

July 2025

Lake Superior State University

Title / URL	Issues
School of Arts, Letters, Social Scienceswww.lssu.edu/school-of-arts-letters-social-sciences/	4
Students \| Lake Superior State Universitywww.lssu.edu/academics/academic-services/career-services/students/	4
School of Criminal Justice, Fire Science, and Emergency Serviceswww.lssu.edu/school-of-criminal-justice/	4
School of Kinesiology and Psychologywww.lssu.edu/school-of-kinesiology/	4
School of Educationwww.lssu.edu/school-of-education/	4
School of Nursingwww.lssu.edu/school-of-nursing/	4
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.lssu.edu/	4
Campus Map \| Lake Superior State Universitywww.lssu.edu/campus-map/	4
School of Biological Scienceswww.lssu.edu/school-of-biological-sciences/	4
Lake Superior State University Academicswww.lssu.edu/academics/	4

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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