OHSU | Healing Begins with Discovery

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Education at OHSU | Be Part of Something Bigger

Exceptional Patient Care and Treatment | OHSU Hospitals and Clinics

Initiatives | OHSU

Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation | OHSU

Contact Us | OHSU

Brain and Neurology Hospital and Treatment Center | OHSU

OHSU Innovates | OHSU

School of Medicine | OHSU

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

Oregon Health and Science University

Title / URL	Issues
OHSU \| Healing Begins with Discoverywww.ohsu.edu/	2
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ohsu.edu/	2
Education at OHSU \| Be Part of Something Biggerwww.ohsu.edu/education	1
Exceptional Patient Care and Treatment \| OHSU Hospitals and Clinicswww.ohsu.edu/health	1
Initiatives \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/about/initiatives	1
Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/ortho	1
Contact Us \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/about/contact-us	1
Brain and Neurology Hospital and Treatment Center \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/brain-institute	1
OHSU Innovates \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/innovates	1
School of Medicine \| OHSUwww.ohsu.edu/school-of-medicine	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Oregon Health and Science University

Where this issue has occurred