NOLS Alumni Trips - NOLS

News - NOLS

About NOLS - NOLS

Donate to NOLS - NOLS

Giving Impact - NOLS

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Our Team - NOLS

Page Not Found - NOLS

Mission - NOLS

Wilderness Medicine - NOLS

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

October 2025

September 2025

National Outdoor Leadership School

	Title / URL	Issues
	NOLS Alumni Trips - NOLSwww.nols.edu/alumni/trips/	1
	News - NOLSwww.nols.edu/media/	1
	About NOLS - NOLSwww.nols.edu/about/about/	1
	Donate to NOLS - NOLSwww.nols.edu/giving/donate/	1
	Giving Impact - NOLSwww.nols.edu/giving/impact/	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.nols.edu/	1
	Our Team - NOLSwww.nols.edu/about/our-team/	1
	Page Not Found - NOLSwww.nols.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
	Mission - NOLSwww.nols.edu/about/mission/	1
	Wilderness Medicine - NOLSwww.nols.edu/courses/wm/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

National Outdoor Leadership School

Where this issue has occurred