Motor Tax | Laois County Council

News search | Laois County Council

Cost Rental Scheme | Laois County Council

Turning of Sod at Doonane | Laois County Council

Water Reports | Laois County Council

Ireland Reads Storytime | Laois County Council

Newsroom | Laois County Council

Arts and Culture | Laois County Council

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

May 2025

April 2025

Laois County Council

Title / URL	Issues
Motor Tax \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/finance/motor-tax/motor-tax	1
News search \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/news/search?f%5B0%5D=dept%3A458	1
Cost Rental Scheme \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/housing/housing-schemes/cost-rental-scheme	1
Turning of Sod at Doonane \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/newsroom/2025/turning-of-sod-at-doonane	1
News search \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/news/search?f%5B0%5D=dept%3A150	1
Water Reports \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/water/statistics-and-reports/water-reports	1
Ireland Reads Storytime \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/events/ireland-reads-storytime	1
News search \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/news/search?f%5B0%5D=category%3A466	1
Newsroom \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/newsroom?page=6	1
Arts and Culture \| Laois County Councillaois.ie/arts-and-culture	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Laois County Council

Where this issue has occurred