Aerospace Color Coatings, Color Designs & Services | PPG

What's new?

PPG: Innovating with Paints, Coatings, and Specialty Materials

PPG's Architectural Coatings Across Regions

Automotive OEM Coatings, OEM Paint Systems & Color Leaders

Global Industrial Coatings Leader | PPG Industrial Coatings.

Traffic and Pavement Marking Solutions | PPG's Traffic Solutions Business

PPG Corporate

Sustainability | PPG Sustainability Report

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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PPG Industries

	Title / URL	Issues
	Aerospace Color Coatings, Color Designs & Services \| PPGwww.ppg.com/en-US/aerospace/color-design	5
	What's new?www.ppg.com/en-US/packagingcoatings/whats-new	5
	PPG: Innovating with Paints, Coatings, and Specialty Materialswww.ppg.com/en-US	5
	PPG's Architectural Coatings Across Regionswww.ppg.com/en-US/architectural-coatings	5
	PPGwww.ppg.com/en-US/invented-url-for-404-page	5
	Automotive OEM Coatings, OEM Paint Systems & Color Leaderswww.ppg.com/en-US/autocoatings	5
	Global Industrial Coatings Leader \| PPG Industrial Coatings.www.ppg.com/en-US/industrialcoatings	5
	Traffic and Pavement Marking Solutions \| PPG's Traffic Solutions Businesswww.ppg.com/en-US/traffic	5
	PPG Corporatewww.ppg.com/en-US/about-ppg	5
	Sustainability \| PPG Sustainability Reportwww.ppg.com/en-US/sustainability	5

Ensure form controls have labels

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