Our People | Rathbones

International | Rathbones

Investing in our people | Rathbones

Your career | Rathbones

Rathbones for Charities | Rathbones

Knowledge and Insight | Rathbones

Climate reporting | Rathbones

Rathbones | Wealth and Investment Management

Investment management | Rathbones

Media centre | Rathbones

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

December 2025

November 2025

Rathbone Brothers

Title / URL	Issues
Our People \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/about-us/our-people	4
International \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/international	4
Investing in our people \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/our-people	4
Your career \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/careers/your-career	4
Rathbones for Charities \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/charities	4
Knowledge and Insight \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/knowledge-and-insight	4
Climate reporting \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/climate-reporting	4
Rathbones \| Wealth and Investment Managementwww.rathbones.com/	4
Investment management \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/investment-management	4
Media centre \| Rathboneswww.rathbones.com/media-centre	4

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Rathbone Brothers

Where this issue has occurred