Student Resources | Online Community College

Degrees and Certificates | Online Community College

Transfer | Online Community College

Public Safety | Online Community College

Guest Student | Rio Salado College

Dental Clinic | Online Community College

News Room | Online Community College

RISE Learning for Life | Online Community College

Earn a Degree or Certificate | Rio Salado College

Adult Education | Rio Salado College

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

February 2026

January 2026

Rio Salado College

	Title / URL	Issues
	Student Resources \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/student-resources	3
	Degrees and Certificates \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/degrees-certificates	1
	Transfer \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/start-rio/transfer	1
	Public Safety \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/community/public-safety	1
	Guest Student \| Rio Salado Collegewww.riosalado.edu/start-rio/take-class	1
	Dental Clinic \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/community/dental-clinic	1
	News Room \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/about/news-room	1
	RISE Learning for Life \| Online Community Collegewww.riosalado.edu/community/rise	1
	Earn a Degree or Certificate \| Rio Salado Collegewww.riosalado.edu/start-rio/earn-degree	1
	Adult Education \| Rio Salado Collegewww.riosalado.edu/start-rio/adult-education	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Rio Salado College

Where this issue has occurred