Grand Prairie Center | Phillips Community College

Admissions | Phillips Community College

Library | Phillips Community College

Academic Calendar | Phillips Community College

Campus Locations | Phillips Community College

Workday | Phillips Community College

Course Catalog | Phillips Community College

Adult Education | Phillips Community College

Housing/Residential Life | Phillips Community College

Rowdy Ride | Phillips Community College

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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	Title / URL	Issues
	Grand Prairie Center \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/GPC/	6
	Admissions \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/admissions/	1
	Library \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/library/	1
	Academic Calendar \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/academic-calendar/	1
	Campus Locations \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/campus-locations/	1
	Workday \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/workday/	1
	Course Catalog \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/course-catalog/	1
	Adult Education \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/adult-education/	1
	Housing/Residential Life \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/housing/	1
	Rowdy Ride \| Phillips Community Collegewww.pccua.edu/rowdy-ride/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Phillips Community College U of A

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