Financial Wellness Center | Financial Education | USALLIANCE

Checking, Credit Cards, Loans, Top CD Rates | Federal Credit Union | USALLIANCE Financial

Personal Loans | USALLIANCE Financial

Banking Products | USALLIANCE Financial

Certificate Accounts | High Yield Certificates | USALLIANCE Financial

IRA | Certificates | Financial Services | USALLIANCE Financial

HELOC | Home Lending Center | USALLIANCE

Visa Classic, Signature & Secured Credit Cards | USALLIANCE Financial

Website Privacy Policy | USALLIANCE Financial

Home Lending Center | Mortgages | USALLIANCE

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

August 2025

July 2025

Usalliance Credit Union

Title / URL	Issues
Financial Wellness Center \| Financial Education \| USALLIANCEwww.usalliance.org/financial-education	4
Checking, Credit Cards, Loans, Top CD Rates \| Federal Credit Union \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/	1
Personal Loans \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/loan-products/personal-loans	1
Banking Products \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/banking-products	1
Certificate Accounts \| High Yield Certificates \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/investment-products/cd	1
IRA \| Certificates \| Financial Services \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/investment-products	1
HELOC \| Home Lending Center \| USALLIANCEwww.usalliance.org/home-lending-center/heloc	1
Visa Classic, Signature & Secured Credit Cards \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/banking-products/credit-cards	1
Website Privacy Policy \| USALLIANCE Financialwww.usalliance.org/website-privacy-policy	1
Home Lending Center \| Mortgages \| USALLIANCEwww.usalliance.org/home-lending-center	1

Ensure form controls have labels

Usalliance Credit Union

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