Contact UNBC | UNBC

Office of Research and Innovation | UNBC

University of Northern British Columbia - Homepage | UNBC

International | UNBC

Submit a web request | UNBC

Academic Calendar | UNBC

UNBC Giving | UNBC

Leading a Sustainable Future | UNBC

Campuses, research sites and facilities | UNBC

Future students | UNBC

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

June 2025

May 2025

University of Northern British Columbia

	Title / URL	Issues
	Contact UNBC \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/about-unbc/contact	9
	Office of Research and Innovation \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/office-research-and-innovation	9
	University of Northern British Columbia - Homepage \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/	9
	International \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/international	9
	Submit a web request \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/web/request	9
	Academic Calendar \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/calendar	9
	UNBC Giving \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/giving	9
	Leading a Sustainable Future \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/sustainability	9
	Campuses, research sites and facilities \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/about-unbc/campus-location-details	9
	Future students \| UNBCwww.unbc.ca/future-students	9

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

University of Northern British Columbia

Where this issue has occurred