Dietary Needs | The Hershey Company

Sustainability | The Hershey Company

Governance | The Hershey Company

U.S. Hershey Retirees | The Hershey Company

Home | The Hershey Company

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Our Ingredients | The Hershey Company

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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Dietary Needs \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/ingredients/dietary-needs.html	51
	Sustainability \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/sustainability.html	30
	Governance \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/sustainability/governance.html	16
	U.S. Hershey Retirees \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/retirees.html	14
	404www.thehersheycompany.com/invented-url-for-404-page	6
	Home \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home.html	4
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home.html	4
	Our Ingredients \| The Hershey Companywww.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/ingredients.html	2

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

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