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Repairs to Your Rented Home |

Empty Properties and Second Homes |

Public Registers |

Councillors & Decision Making |

Food Waste |

Waste & Recycling |

Annual Plan |

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

June 2025

May 2025

Mole Valley Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	molevalley.gov.ukwww.molevalley.gov.uk/	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.molevalley.gov.uk/	2
	Useful Housing Contacts \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/housing/useful-housing-contacts/	1
	Repairs to Your Rented Home \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/housing-repairs-to-your-rented-home/	1
	Empty Properties and Second Homes \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/empty-properties-and-second-homes/	1
	Public Registers \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/my-council/public-registers/	1
	Councillors & Decision Making \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/councillors-decision-making/	1
	Food Waste \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/waste-recycling/food-waste/	1
	Waste & Recycling \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/waste-recycling/	1
	Annual Plan \|www.molevalley.gov.uk/annualplan/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Mole Valley Council

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