QinetiQ - Board of Directors

QinetiQ TechWatch Publication

Aviation & Aerospace

Defence

QinetiQ Security & Defence Contractors

What we do

Insights

About our company - QinetiQ

National Security Emerging Technologies from QinetiQ

Capabilities

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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	QinetiQ - Board of Directorswww.qinetiq.com/en/our-company/board-of-directors	20
	QinetiQ TechWatch Publicationwww.qinetiq.com/en/insights/techwatch	10
	Aviation & Aerospacewww.qinetiq.com/en/markets/aviation-and-aerospace	9
	Defencewww.qinetiq.com/en/markets/defence	9
	QinetiQ Security & Defence Contractorswww.qinetiq.com/en/	9
	What we dowww.qinetiq.com/en/what-we-do	9
	Insightswww.qinetiq.com/en/insights	9
	About our company - QinetiQwww.qinetiq.com/en/our-company	9
	National Security Emerging Technologies from QinetiQwww.qinetiq.com/en/markets/government	9
	Capabilitieswww.qinetiq.com/en/capabilities	9

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

QinetiQ

Where this issue has occurred