Contact us online - Peak District RHA

Publications - Peak District RHA

Our successes - Peak District RHA

Business Plans - Peak District RHA

New homes in Bakewell - Peak District RHA

News - Peak District RHA

PDRHA | Our policies - Peak District RHA

PDRHA | Meet the Board - Peak District RHA

Our performance | Peak District Rural Housing - Peak District RHA

Find a home - Peak District RHA

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

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Peak District Rural Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Contact us online - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/contact-us/contact-us-online/	3
Publications - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/publications/	2
Our successes - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/about-us/our-successes/	2
Business Plans - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/publications/business-plans/	2
New homes in Bakewell - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/news/new-homes-in-bakewell/	2
News - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/news/	2
PDRHA \| Our policies - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/about-us/our-policies/	2
PDRHA \| Meet the Board - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-board/	2
Our performance \| Peak District Rural Housing - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/about-us/our-performance/	2
Find a home - Peak District RHAwww.peakdistrictrha.org.uk/find-a-home/	2

Ensure form controls have labels

Peak District Rural Housing Association Limited

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