Events | Rice ISD

Hydrocephalus Awareness Month | Rice ISD

CTE Month | Rice ISD

Page Not Found | Rice ISD

New Bulldog Athletic Hires | Rice ISD

Live Feed | Rice ISD

Hispanic Heritage Month Event | Rice ISD

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

March 2026

February 2026

Rice ISD

Title / URL	Issues
Events \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/events?id=44974461	2
Events \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/events?id=44970886	2
Events \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/events?id=44982194	2
Events \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/events?id=44975107	2
Hydrocephalus Awareness Month \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/article/1786170	1
CTE Month \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/article/2011142	1
Page Not Found \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/invented-url-for-404-page	1
New Bulldog Athletic Hires \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/article/1564908	1
Live Feed \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/live-feed?page_no=1	1
Hispanic Heritage Month Event \| Rice ISDwww.rice-isd.org/article/1749388	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Rice ISD

Where this issue has occurred