Giving | Giving

Access to information and privacy | About us

All events | University of Ottawa

Faculty and staff | About us

My Alumni Association | Alumni

Contact | University of Ottawa

Conventions and Reservations | About us

Media | About us

Library | Library

Planned giving | Giving

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 Ottawa

Title / URL	Issues
Giving \| Givingwww.uottawa.ca/giving/	1
Access to information and privacy \| About uswww.uottawa.ca/about-us/aipo	1
All events \| University of Ottawawww.uottawa.ca/en/events-all	1
Faculty and staff \| About uswww.uottawa.ca/about-us/faculty-staff	1
My Alumni Association \| Alumniwww.uottawa.ca/alumni/alumni-association	1
Contact \| University of Ottawawww.uottawa.ca/en/contact	1
Conventions and Reservations \| About uswww.uottawa.ca/about-us/reservations	1
Media \| About uswww.uottawa.ca/about-us/media	1
Library \| Librarywww.uottawa.ca/library/	1
Planned giving \| Givingwww.uottawa.ca/giving/planned-giving	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

University of Ottawa

Where this issue has occurred