Grad Studies

Majors, Minors, and Programs

Meet Your Recruiter

Distance Learning

Graduation

Parents

Administration

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

July 2025

June 2025

Walla Walla University

Title / URL	Issues
Grad Studieswww.wallawalla.edu/academics/grad-studies	1
Majors, Minors, and Programswww.wallawalla.edu/academics/majors-minors-and-programs	1
Meet Your Recruiterwww.wallawalla.edu/admissions-and-aid/meet-your-recruiter	1
Distance Learningwww.wallawalla.edu/academics/distance-learning	1
Graduationwww.wallawalla.edu/resources/family-resources/graduation	1
Parentswww.wallawalla.edu/admissions-and-aid/visit-wwu/parents	1
Administrationwww.wallawalla.edu/about-wwu/administration	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Walla Walla University

Where this issue has occurred