LEARN. EXPLORE. ACCELERATE. PERSEVERE. | TCC.edu

Support TCC Students | TCC.edu

Pay Your College Tuition | Tidewater Community College

Payment Plan Program | Tidewater Community College

Academic Career Pathways | Tidewater Community College

Visiting students | TCC.edu

TCC Alumni Community | Tidewater Community College

Returning Students | TCC.edu

Program Finder | Tidewater Community College Programs

Come to TCC | TCC.edu

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

July 2025

June 2025

Tidewater Community College

Title / URL	Issues
LEARN. EXPLORE. ACCELERATE. PERSEVERE. \| TCC.eduwww.tcc.edu/come-to-tcc/leap/	1
Support TCC Students \| TCC.eduwww.tcc.edu/about-tcc/educational-foundation/support-tcc-students/	1
Pay Your College Tuition \| Tidewater Community Collegewww.tcc.edu/paying-for-college/pay-tuition/	1
Payment Plan Program \| Tidewater Community Collegewww.tcc.edu/paying-for-college/payment-plan/	1
Academic Career Pathways \| Tidewater Community Collegewww.tcc.edu/programs/career-pathways/	1
Visiting students \| TCC.eduwww.tcc.edu/come-to-tcc/visiting-students/	1
TCC Alumni Community \| Tidewater Community Collegewww.tcc.edu/tcc-alumni/	1
Returning Students \| TCC.eduwww.tcc.edu/come-to-tcc/returning-students/	1
Program Finder \| Tidewater Community College Programswww.tcc.edu/programs/	1
Come to TCC \| TCC.eduwww.tcc.edu/come-to-tcc/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Tidewater Community College

Where this issue has occurred