Terms and conditions | Housekeeping | Retail Trust

Leylands Estate, Derby | Information | Retail Trust

Your health and wellbeing | Retail Trust

Privacy notice | Housekeeping | Retail Trust

Marshall Estate, London | Information | Retail Trust

Home | Retail Trust

Newsletter sign-up | Retail Trust

Guidance for managers | Retail Trust

“All my friends moved away” | Guidance | Retail Trust

First time visit: View without clicking anything

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

August 2025

July 2025

Retail Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Terms and conditions \| Housekeeping \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/terms-and-conditions	1
Leylands Estate, Derby \| Information \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/supported-living/derby	1
Your health and wellbeing \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/your-health-and-wellbeing?navCode=1049	1
Privacy notice \| Housekeeping \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/privacy-notice	1
Marshall Estate, London \| Information \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/supported-living/london	1
Home \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/	1
Newsletter sign-up \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/newsletter-sign-up	1
Guidance for managers \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/your-health-and-wellbeing/for-managers	1
“All my friends moved away” \| Guidance \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/all-my-friends-moved-away/1938.article	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.retailtrust.org.uk/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Retail Trust

Where this issue has occurred