Faculty & Staff | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:21:37 pm /fs/

Ask an Advisor | New River Community College | Dublin, Virginia

College Offices | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:23:07 pm /offices/

Search NRCC Websites | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:22:50 pm /search/

Freedom of Information Act | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:22:23 pm /foia/

Academic Departments | New River Community College | Dublin, Virginia

NRCC Educational Foundation | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:22:44 pm /foundation/

Human Resources | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:22:36 pm /jobs/

Academic Success Center | New River Community College | 04/17/2025 09:21:44 pm /asc/

Mission | New River Community College | Dublin, Virginia

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

June 2025

May 2025

New River Community College

	Title / URL	Issues
	Faculty & Staff \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:21:37 pm /fs/www.nr.edu/fs/	6
	Ask an Advisor \| New River Community College \| Dublin, Virginiawww.nr.edu/advisor/	1
	College Offices \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:23:07 pm /offices/www.nr.edu/offices/	1
	Search NRCC Websites \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:22:50 pm /search/www.nr.edu/search/	1
	Freedom of Information Act \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:22:23 pm /foia/www.nr.edu/foia/	1
	Academic Departments \| New River Community College \| Dublin, Virginiawww.nr.edu/aw/	1
	NRCC Educational Foundation \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:22:44 pm /foundation/www.nr.edu/foundation/	1
	Human Resources \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:22:36 pm /jobs/www.nr.edu/jobs/	1
	Academic Success Center \| New River Community College \| 04/17/2025 09:21:44 pm /asc/www.nr.edu/asc/	1
	Mission \| New River Community College \| Dublin, Virginiawww.nr.edu/mission/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

New River Community College

Where this issue has occurred