Employability

Accommodation

Sustainable Development Goals

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Language Centre

Jobs | University of Nottingham

Department of Architecture and Built Environment

index

Institute for Policy and Engagement

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

January 2026

December 2025

University of Nottingham

Title / URL	Issues
Employabilitywww.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus/why-study/employability.aspx	3
Accommodationwww.nottingham.ac.uk/student-living/accommodation/index.aspx	3
Sustainable Development Goalswww.nottingham.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/index.aspx	3
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineeringwww.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/departments/eee/index.aspx	3
Language Centrewww.nottingham.ac.uk/language-centre/index.aspx	3
Jobs \| University of Nottinghamwww.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/home.aspx	3
Department of Architecture and Built Environmentwww.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/departments/abe/index.aspx	3
indexwww.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/index.aspx	3
indexwww.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/	3
Institute for Policy and Engagementwww.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-engagement/home.aspx	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

University of Nottingham

Where this issue has occurred