Children and families - Surrey County Council

Search for a job - Surrey County Council

Stars in Surrey - Surrey County Council

Adult social care and support - Surrey County Council

Working with children - Surrey County Council

Choosing the right adult care - Surrey County Council

Surrey Virtual School (SVS) - Surrey County Council

About the Surrey Adults Academy - Surrey County Council

What's on in Surrey - Surrey County Council

Life at Surrey - Surrey County 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

December 2025

November 2025

Surrey County Council

Title / URL	Issues
Children and families - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/children	1
Search for a job - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/search	1
Stars in Surrey - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/community/stars	1
Adult social care and support - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/adults	1
Working with children - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/opportunities/children	1
Choosing the right adult care - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/adults/choosing-the-right-care	1
Surrey Virtual School (SVS) - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/children/social-care/svs	1
About the Surrey Adults Academy - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/adults/professionals/academy	1
What's on in Surrey - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/community/news/whats-on	1
Life at Surrey - Surrey County Councilwww.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/life-at-surrey	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Surrey County Council

Where this issue has occurred