SIAS | Southwark Local Offer

Thrive-to-25: Southwark’s Short Breaks Innovation Programme | Southwark Local Offer

Youth Offer | Southwark Local Offer

Care | Southwark Local Offer

Education | Southwark Local Offer

Have your Say | Southwark Local Offer

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

June 2025

May 2025

Southwark Local Offer

	Title / URL	Issues
	SIAS \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/sias/?displaypref=large	3
	Thrive-to-25: Southwark’s Short Breaks Innovation Programme \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/care/thrive-to-25	3
	SIAS \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/sias/?displaypref=default	3
	Thrive-to-25: Southwark’s Short Breaks Innovation Programme \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/care/thrive-to-25/	3
	SIAS \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/sias/	3
	Youth Offer \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/youth-offer/	2
	Care \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/care/?displaypref=contrast	2
	Education \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/education/	2
	Have your Say \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/have-your-say/	2
	Care \| Southwark Local Offerlocaloffer.southwark.gov.uk/care/?displaypref=large	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Southwark Local Offer

Where this issue has occurred