Sudan | MSF medical and humanitarian aid

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| MSF

Pakistan | MSF medical and humanitarian aid

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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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Sudan \| MSF medical and humanitarian aidwww.msf.org/sudan	1
	Latest MSF contentswww.msf.org/latest-portal	1
	RSS \| MSFwww.msf.org/rss	1
	\| MSFwww.msf.org/invented-url-for-404-page	1
	Pakistan \| MSF medical and humanitarian aidwww.msf.org/pakistan	1
	MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières \| Medical humanitarian organisationwww.msf.org/	1
	Donate to Médecins Sans Frontières \| MSFwww.msf.org/donate	1
	What MSF does: discover all topicswww.msf.org/topics-portal	1
	Who we are \| MSFwww.msf.org/who-we-are	1
	Accountability \| MSFwww.msf.org/accountability	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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