Academic Affairs | SFA

Center for Career and Professional Development | CCPD | SFA

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Campus Map | SFA

Academic Advising | SFA

Steen Library | SFA

Summer with SFA | SFA

SFA Admissions & Aid | SFA

A-Z List | SFA

About SFA | 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
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.sfasu.edu/	2
	Campus Map \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/map	2
	Academic Advising \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/advising	2
	Steen Library \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/library	2
	Summer with SFA \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/summer	2
	SFA Admissions & Aid \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/admissions-and-aid	2
	A-Z List \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/a-to-z	2
	About SFA \| SFAwww.sfasu.edu/about-sfa	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Stephen F. Austin State University

Where this issue has occurred