Nonprofits | Northern Trust

Northern Trust page has moved or unavailable

Financial Insights & Research | Northern Trust

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Family Office Clients at Northern Trust

Search | Northern Trust

Northern Trust | Guided by service, expertise and integrity

who-we-serve | Northern Trust

Sovereign Entities | Northern Trust

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

August 2025

July 2025

Northern Trust Corp.

	Title / URL	Issues
	Nonprofits \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/europe/who-we-serve/nonprofits	4
	Nonprofits \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/united-states/who-we-serve/nonprofits	4
	Northern Trust page has moved or unavailablewww.northerntrust.com/united-states/page-not-found	2
	Financial Insights & Research \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/europe/insights-research	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.northerntrust.com/europe/home	2
	Family Office Clients at Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/europe/who-we-serve/family-offices	2
	Search \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/united-states/search	2
	Northern Trust \| Guided by service, expertise and integritywww.northerntrust.com/united-states/home	2
	who-we-serve \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/united-states/who-we-serve	2
	Sovereign Entities \| Northern Trustwww.northerntrust.com/europe/who-we-serve/sovereign-entities	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Northern Trust Corp.

Where this issue has occurred