Affordable Housing Division | Fairfield, CA

History & Demography | Fairfield, CA

Holiday Tree Lighting | Fairfield, CA

City Parks | Fairfield, CA

Fairfield BUILD | Fairfield, CA

About Fairfield | Fairfield, CA

Taste of Downtown | Fairfield, CA

City Attorney | Fairfield, CA

Contact Us | Fairfield, CA

Fairfield, CA | Home

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

August 2025

July 2025

Town of Fairfield

	Title / URL	Issues
	Affordable Housing Division \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/government/city-departments/housing-services/affordable-housing-division	1
	History & Demography \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city/history	1
	Holiday Tree Lighting \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city/holiday-tree-lighting	1
	City Parks \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/government/city-departments/parks-and-recreation/facility-park-picnic-rentals/city-parks	1
	Fairfield BUILD \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/government/city-departments/community-development/fairfield-build	1
	About Fairfield \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city	1
	Taste of Downtown \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city/downtown-events	1
	City Attorney \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/government/city-attorney	1
	Contact Us \| Fairfield, CAwww.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city/contact-us	1
	Fairfield, CA \| Homewww.fairfield.ca.gov/home	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Town of Fairfield

Where this issue has occurred