Rio Arriba County Home Page

employment

Planning and Zoning Committee

Public Forms

Staff Page

Onate Center

Rio Arriba County Commissioners

Rio Arriba Food Council Board

county_directory

rio-arriba.org

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

April 2025

March 2025

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Title / URL	Issues
Rio Arriba County Home Pagewww.rio-arriba.org/boards/	1
employmentwww.rio-arriba.org/employment/	1
Planning and Zoning Committeewww.rio-arriba.org/boards/planning_and_zoning_board.html	1
Public Formswww.rio-arriba.org/forms/	1
Staff Pagewww.rio-arriba.org/staff/	1
Onate Centerwww.rio-arriba.org/departments_and_divisions/onate_center.html	1
Rio Arriba County Commissionerswww.rio-arriba.org/county_commission/	1
Rio Arriba Food Council Boardwww.rio-arriba.org/boards/rio_arriba_food_council.html	1
county_directorywww.rio-arriba.org/county_directory/	1
rio-arriba.orgwww.rio-arriba.org/	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

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