Complaints | Trussell

Contact us | Trussell

News | Trussell

Stay in touch | Trussell

Ending hunger together | Trussell

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Food bank donations | Trussell

Philanthropy | Trussell

Donate money | Charity donation | Trussell

Support us | Trussell

When using accessible descriptions (`aria-describedby`), ensure that the 
descriptions exist.

## Explanation

ARIA descriptions are commonly used to add supplementary information to 
elements in a page, especially form controls. For example:

```html
<input type="email" aria-describedby="email-help">
<p id="email-helpp">Enter your work email address</p>
```

In this example, the `aria-describedby` for the field points to an ID of `email-help`,
which doesn't exist. The paragraph it refers to instead has an ID of `email-helpp`, presumably 
a typo.

## Why this matters

It isn't usually clear when an accessible description is broken, even during user testing.

This check helps to identify where an element clearly intended to have a description, but
that description is missing.

When a description is broken, key information about that element may be omitted from 
assistive technologies.

missing-aria-described-by

October 2025

September 2025

The Trussell Trust

	Title / URL	Issues
	Complaints \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/contact-us/complaints	31
	Contact us \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/contact-us	16
	News \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/news-and-research/news	12
	Stay in touch \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/contact-us/stay-in-touch	12
	Ending hunger together \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/	8
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.trussell.org.uk/	8
	Food bank donations \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/support-us/donate-food	6
	Philanthropy \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/support-us/philanthropy	6
	Donate money \| Charity donation \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/support-us/donate-money	6
	Support us \| Trussellwww.trussell.org.uk/support-us	6

Fix missing ARIA description IDs

The Trussell Trust

Where this issue has occurred