Academic Affairs | SFA

Center for Career and Professional Development | CCPD | SFA

Academics - Majors, Minors, Degrees, and Online Programs | SFA

Semester Guide | Spring 2025 | SFA

About SFA | SFA

A-Z List | SFA

Site Policies | SFA

Academic Advising | SFA

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Campus Map | SFA

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

Stephen F. Austin State University

Title / URL	Issues
Academic Affairs \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/acadaffairs	4
Center for Career and Professional Development \| CCPD \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/ccpd	2
Academics - Majors, Minors, Degrees, and Online Programs \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/academics	2
Semester Guide \| Spring 2025 \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/semesterguide	2
About SFA \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/about-sfa	2
A-Z List \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/a-to-z	2
Site Policies \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/site-policies	2
Academic Advising \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/advising	2
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.sfasu.edu/	2
Campus Map \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/map	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Stephen F. Austin State University

Where this issue has occurred