My Community – Maranoa Regional Council

Living Here – Maranoa Regional Council

Events – Maranoa Regional Council

Anzac Day – Maranoa Regional Council

Water – Maranoa Regional Council

Stock Routes – Maranoa Regional Council

Be Prepared – Maranoa Regional Council

Cemeteries – Maranoa Regional Council

Roads – Maranoa Regional Council

Page not found – Maranoa Regional Council

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

July 2025

June 2025

Maranoa Regional Council

Title / URL	Issues
My Community – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/community	4
Living Here – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/living	4
Events – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/Events	4
Anzac Day – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/anzac-day	4
Water – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/water	4
Stock Routes – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/stock-routes	4
Be Prepared – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/prepared	4
Cemeteries – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/cemeteries	4
Roads – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/roads	4
Page not found – Maranoa Regional Councilwww.maranoa.qld.gov.au/invented-url-for-404-page	4

Ensure form controls have labels

Maranoa Regional Council

Where this issue has occurred