Page not found |

Key Partners |

Repairs Q&A |

Moving Home |

Free employment support services – getting back to work |

Report a Repair |

Christmas & New Year Office Closing Times |

Anti-social Behaviour |

Audited Accounts and Annual Reports of the Board of Management |

Paying your rent over Christmas and the New Year |

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

December 2024

November 2024

Odu-Dua Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Page not found \|odu-dua.org/invented-url-for-404-page	4
Key Partners \|odu-dua.org/about-us/key-partners/	2
Repairs Q&A \|odu-dua.org/faq/repairs-qa/	2
Moving Home \|odu-dua.org/faq/moving-home/	2
Free employment support services – getting back to work \|odu-dua.org/free-employment-support-services-getting-back-to-work/	2
Report a Repair \|odu-dua.org/contact-us/report-a-repair/	2
Christmas & New Year Office Closing Times \|odu-dua.org/christmas-new-year-office-closing-times/	2
Anti-social Behaviour \|odu-dua.org/faq/anti-social-behaviour/	2
Audited Accounts and Annual Reports of the Board of Management \|odu-dua.org/resources/accounts/	2
Paying your rent over Christmas and the New Year \|odu-dua.org/paying-your-rent-over-christmas-and-the-new-year/	2

Ensure form controls have labels

Odu-Dua Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred