Community Centres | Poplar HARCA

Nursery | Poplar HARCA

Page not found | Poplar HARCA

Awards | Poplar HARCA

Parking & garages | Poplar HARCA

Leaseholders | Poplar HARCA

News | Poplar HARCA

Building safety | Poplar HARCA

Stories | Poplar HARCA

Who we are | Poplar HARCA

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

June 2024

May 2024

Poplar Housing And Regeneration Community Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Community Centres \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/get-involved/community-centres/	13
Nursery \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/get-involved/nursery/	5
Page not found \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	5
Awards \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/about-us/who-we-are/awards/	4
Parking & garages \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/your-home/parking-garages/	4
Leaseholders \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/your-home/leaseholders/	4
News \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/about-us/news/	4
Building safety \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/your-home/building-safety/	4
Stories \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/about-us/who-we-are/20-years/	4
Who we are \| Poplar HARCAwww.poplarharca.co.uk/about-us/who-we-are/mission-and-vision/	4

Ensure form controls have labels

Poplar Housing And Regeneration Community Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred