Jim Babb, Author at VCCS

Virginia's Community Colleges, Author at VCCS

Craig Butterworth, Author at VCCS

Serving Adults - VCCS

Transfer | Virginia's Community Colleges

Virginia’s Community Colleges | Affordable Degrees, Certificates, Career Training

Virginia's Community Colleges Online

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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

Virginia's Community Colleges

Title / URL	Issues
Jim Babb, Author at VCCSwww.vccs.edu/author/jbabb/	100
Virginia's Community Colleges, Author at VCCSwww.vccs.edu/author/vccs/	100
Craig Butterworth, Author at VCCSwww.vccs.edu/author/cbutterworth/	100
Serving Adults - VCCSwww.vccs.edu/serving-adults/	1
Transfer \| Virginia's Community Collegeswww.vccs.edu/transfer-programs/	1
Virginia’s Community Colleges \| Affordable Degrees, Certificates, Career Trainingwww.vccs.edu/	1
Virginia's Community Colleges Onlinewww.vccs.edu/ovn/	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.vccs.edu/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Virginia's Community Colleges

Where this issue has occurred