RTÉ Television

Gaeilge

RTÉ Games: puzzles, arcade, word games.

RTÉ Lifestyle | Food, Fashion, Living, Travel & Motors

RTÉ Radio

RTÉ Archives | Daily stories from television and radio records of Irish life

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta

Want to be in the Late Late Show Audience?

Recipes from RTÉ Lifestyle

RTÉ Weather - Forecast

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

RTÉ – Raidió Teilifís Éireann

	Title / URL	Issues
	RTÉ Televisionwww.rte.ie/tv/programmes/	1
	Gaeilgewww.rte.ie/gaeilge/	1
	RTÉ Games: puzzles, arcade, word games.www.rte.ie/games/	1
	RTÉ Lifestyle \| Food, Fashion, Living, Travel & Motorswww.rte.ie/lifestyle/	1
	RTÉ Radiowww.rte.ie/radio/	1
	RTÉ Archives \| Daily stories from television and radio records of Irish lifewww.rte.ie/archives/	1
	RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachtawww.rte.ie/radio/rnag/	1
	Want to be in the Late Late Show Audience?www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/latelate/	1
	Recipes from RTÉ Lifestylewww.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/	1
	RTÉ Weather - Forecastwww.rte.ie/weather/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

RTÉ – Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Where this issue has occurred