Business, industry and trade - Office for National Statistics

Armed forces community - Office for National Statistics

Survey enquiries - Office for National Statistics

Inflation and price indices - Office for National Statistics

Methodology contacts - Office for National Statistics

Employment and labour market - Office for National Statistics

Statistics - Office for National Statistics

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - Office for National Statistics

What we do - Office for National Statistics

Browsers - Office for National Statistics

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

May 2025

April 2025

Office for National Statistics

Title / URL	Issues
Business, industry and trade - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade	1
Armed forces community - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/armedforcescommunity	1
Survey enquiries - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/contactus/surveyenquiries	1
Inflation and price indices - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices	1
Methodology contacts - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/methodology/methodologycontacts	1
Employment and labour market - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket	1
Statistics - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/statistics	1
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp	1
What we do - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo	1
Browsers - Office for National Statisticswww.ons.gov.uk/help/browsers	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Office for National Statistics

Where this issue has occurred