Water

Weed control

Understand your rates

Property valuations

Pensioner rebates

Late rates payments

Change your details

Pay your rates

Rates

Living in Merri-bek

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

Merri-bek City Council

Title / URL	Issues
Watermerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/environment/water/	20
Weed controlmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/environment/weed-control/	20
Understand your ratesmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/understand-your-rates/	17
Property valuationsmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/property-valuations/	17
Pensioner rebatesmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/pensioner-rebates/	17
Late rates paymentsmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/late-rates-payments/	17
Change your detailsmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/change-your-details/	17
Pay your ratesmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/pay-your-rates/	17
Ratesmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/rates/	10
Living in Merri-bekmerri-bek.vic.gov.au/living-in-merri-bek/	10

Ensure form controls have labels

Merri-bek City Council

Where this issue has occurred