Specialist support - social care – Southend-on-Sea City Council

About the council – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Jobs and volunteering – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Southend Venues – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Council Tax Penalties – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Community Centres – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Benefits – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Complaints by subject – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Classified roads – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Reduce your Council Tax bill – Southend-on-Sea City Council

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 2025

January 2025

Southend-on-Sea Council

Title / URL	Issues
Specialist support - social care – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/specialist-support	1
About the council – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/council-8	1
Jobs and volunteering – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/jobs	1
Southend Venues – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/southend-venues	1
Council Tax Penalties – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-penalties/1	1
Community Centres – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/directory/22/community_centres	1
Benefits – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/benefits-1	1
Complaints by subject – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/homepage/352/complaints-by-subject	1
Classified roads – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/directory/58/classified-roads	1
Reduce your Council Tax bill – Southend-on-Sea City Councilwww.southend.gov.uk/reduce-council-tax-bill	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Southend-on-Sea Council

Where this issue has occurred