NHS Forth Valley – Breastfeeding Support Group – Stirling

NHS Forth Valley – Media Release

NHS Forth Valley – News

NHS Forth Valley – Career Ambassador Project Celebrates Success

NHS Forth Valley – First Minister Praises Hospital at Home Service

NHS Forth Valley – Accessibility Statement

NHS Forth Valley – Programme Helps Local Women THRIVE

NHS Forth Valley – Support Local Patients Over the Festive Period

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

January 2026

December 2025

NHS Forth Valley

Title / URL	Issues
NHS Forth Valley – Breastfeeding Support Group – Stirlingnhsforthvalley.com/series/breastfeeding-support-group-stirling/	6
NHS Forth Valley – Media Releasenhsforthvalley.com/category/press-release/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Newsnhsforthvalley.com/news/page/2/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Newsnhsforthvalley.com/news/page/9/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Newsnhsforthvalley.com/news/page/4/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Career Ambassador Project Celebrates Successnhsforthvalley.com/career-ambassador-project-celebrates-success/	5
NHS Forth Valley – First Minister Praises Hospital at Home Servicenhsforthvalley.com/first-minister-praises-hospital-at-home-service/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Accessibility Statementnhsforthvalley.com/accessibility-statement/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Programme Helps Local Women THRIVEnhsforthvalley.com/programme-helps-local-women-thrive/	5
NHS Forth Valley – Support Local Patients Over the Festive Periodnhsforthvalley.com/support-local-patients-over-the-festive-period/	5

Ensure form controls have labels

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