First time visit: View without clicking anything

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Kew

Kew Science | Kew

Seed Collection | Kew

Illustrations and Artefacts Collections | Kew

Engage with Kew Science | Kew

Birdsong walk | Kew

Sign up to our school email newsletter | Kew

Digitising Kew's Collections | Kew

Wakehurst | Kew

When using accessible descriptions (`aria-describedby`), ensure that the 
descriptions exist.

## Explanation

ARIA descriptions are commonly used to add supplementary information to 
elements in a page, especially form controls. For example:

```html
<input type="email" aria-describedby="email-help">
<p id="email-helpp">Enter your work email address</p>
```

In this example, the `aria-describedby` for the field points to an ID of `email-help`,
which doesn't exist. The paragraph it refers to instead has an ID of `email-helpp`, presumably 
a typo.

## Why this matters

It isn't usually clear when an accessible description is broken, even during user testing.

This check helps to identify where an element clearly intended to have a description, but
that description is missing.

When a description is broken, key information about that element may be omitted from 
assistive technologies.

missing-aria-described-by

June 2025

May 2025

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

	Title / URL	Issues
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.kew.org/	2
	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew \| Kewwww.kew.org/	2
	Kew Science \| Kewwww.kew.org/science	2
	Seed Collection \| Kewwww.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/seed-collection	1
	Illustrations and Artefacts Collections \| Kewwww.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/illustrations-and-artefacts-collection	1
	Engage with Kew Science \| Kewwww.kew.org/science/engage	1
	Birdsong walk \| Kewwww.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-on/birdsong-walk	1
	Sign up to our school email newsletter \| Kewwww.kew.org/learning/sign-up-school-newsletter	1
	Digitising Kew's Collections \| Kewwww.kew.org/science/digitising-kews-collections	1
	Wakehurst \| Kewwww.kew.org/wakehurst	1

Fix missing ARIA description IDs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Where this issue has occurred