MATC Foundation | MATC

Events | MATC

Types of Classes at MATC | MATC

Student / Employee Login | MATC

Community Education | MATC

Get Help Now | MATC

Orientation and Registration | MATC

Academics | MATC

Apprenticeships | MATC

Milwaukee Area Technical College | MATC

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

December 2025

November 2025

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Title / URL	Issues
MATC Foundation \| MATCwww.matc.edu/foundation/index.html	36
Events \| MATCwww.matc.edu/events/index.html	36
Types of Classes at MATC \| MATCwww.matc.edu/academics/course-types.html	36
Student / Employee Login \| MATCwww.matc.edu/login/index.html	36
Community Education \| MATCwww.matc.edu/academics/community-education/index.html	36
Get Help Now \| MATCwww.matc.edu/gethelp/index.html	36
Orientation and Registration \| MATCwww.matc.edu/admissions-registration/storm/index.html	36
Academics \| MATCwww.matc.edu/academics/index.html	36
Apprenticeships \| MATCwww.matc.edu/academics/apprenticeships.html	36
Milwaukee Area Technical College \| MATCwww.matc.edu/index.html	36

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Where this issue has occurred