College News

Campus Health/Mental Health

Osceola Center

Library

Employee Directory

Error: 404

Get Registered for Classes

Campus Services

Earn your degree online

Spartan Café

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

March 2025

February 2025

Southwestern Community College Iowa

Title / URL	Issues
College Newswww.swcciowa.edu/news	1
Campus Health/Mental Healthwww.swcciowa.edu/student-life/campus-health	1
Osceola Centerwww.swcciowa.edu/academics/osceola-center	1
Librarywww.swcciowa.edu/library	1
Employee Directorywww.swcciowa.edu/directory	1
Error: 404www.swcciowa.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Get Registered for Classeswww.swcciowa.edu/admissions/get-registered	1
Campus Serviceswww.swcciowa.edu/campus-services	1
Earn your degree onlinewww.swcciowa.edu/admissions/online	1
Spartan Caféwww.swcciowa.edu/student-life/spartan-cafe	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Southwestern Community College Iowa

Where this issue has occurred