QinetiQ - Board of Directors

Aviation & Aerospace

Defence

QinetiQ Security & Defence Contractors

What we do

Insights

About our company - QinetiQ

National Security Emerging Technologies from QinetiQ

Capabilities

QinetiQ Group Cookie Policy

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

February 2025

January 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
QinetiQ - Board of Directorswww.qinetiq.com/en/our-company/board-of-directors	18
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
QinetiQ Group Cookie Policywww.qinetiq.com/en/cookie-policy	9

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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