Home | Retail Trust

About us | Retail Trust

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Leylands Estate, Derby | Information | Retail Trust

Your health and wellbeing | Retail Trust

Page Not Found | Retail Trust

Marshall Estate, London | Information | Retail Trust

Our stories | Retail Trust

Guidance for managers | Retail Trust

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 2024

May 2024

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Title / URL	Issues
Home \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/	1
About us \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/about-us	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.retailtrust.org.uk/	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
Page Not Found \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Marshall Estate, London \| Information \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/supported-living/london	1
Our stories \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/about-us/stories	1
Guidance for managers \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/your-health-and-wellbeing/for-managers	1
Home \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/sign-in	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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