Senior Management Team | Northern Areas Council

Policies | Northern Areas Council

Register of Salaries | Northern Areas Council

Annual Business Plans | Northern Areas Council

Delegations | Northern Areas Council

Economic Development Plan | Northern Areas Council

Annual Reports | Northern Areas Council

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

Northern Areas Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Senior Management Team \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/senior-management-team	2
	Policies \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/public-documents/policies	1
	Register of Salaries \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/registers/register-of-salaries	1
	Annual Business Plans \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/public-documents/annual-business-plans	1
	Delegations \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/public-documents/delegations	1
	Economic Development Plan \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/public-documents/economic-development-plan	1
	Annual Reports \| Northern Areas Councilwww.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/council/public-documents/annual-reports	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Northern Areas Council

Where this issue has occurred