Search - State Hospital

Reflective Practice - State Hospital

Class 4 - What we spend and how we spend it - State Hospital

Sharing Your Feedback - State Hospital

Patient Centred Improvement - State Hospital

2022/23 - State Hospital

Health Improvement - State Hospital

Human Resources - State Hospital

Local Community - State Hospital

Website Feedback Form - State Hospital

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

June 2024

May 2024

The State Hospitals Board for Scotland

Title / URL	Issues
Search - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/search/	4
Reflective Practice - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/care-and-treatment/reflective-practice/	3
Class 4 - What we spend and how we spend it - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/foi/class-4/	3
Sharing Your Feedback - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/visitors/patient-visitors/feedback/	3
Patient Centred Improvement - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/policy-topic/patient-centred-improvement/	3
2022/23 - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/care-and-treatment/journal-articles/2022-23/	3
Health Improvement - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/care-and-treatment/health-improvement/	3
Human Resources - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/policy-topic/human-resources/	3
Local Community - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/local-community/	3
Website Feedback Form - State Hospitalwww.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/website-feedback-form/	3

Ensure form controls have labels

The State Hospitals Board for Scotland

Where this issue has occurred