Marshall Estate, London | Information | Retail Trust

Leylands Estate, Derby | Information | Retail Trust

Your health and wellbeing | Retail Trust

News | Retail Trust

Page Not Found | Retail Trust

Privacy notice | Housekeeping | Retail Trust

Terms and conditions | Housekeeping | Retail Trust

Newsletter sign-up | Retail Trust

Home | Retail Trust

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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

Retail Trust

	Title / URL	Issues
	Marshall Estate, London \| Information \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/supported-living/london	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
	News \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/about-us/news	1
	Page Not Found \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1
	Privacy notice \| Housekeeping \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/privacy-notice	1
	Terms and conditions \| Housekeeping \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/terms-and-conditions	1
	Newsletter sign-up \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/newsletter-sign-up	1
	Home \| Retail Trustwww.retailtrust.org.uk/sign-in	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.retailtrust.org.uk/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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