Financial Aid & Affordability | Washington and Lee University

Outcomes

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Giving

Visitors

About W&L

Home

Families

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

October 2025

September 2025

Washington and Lee University

Title / URL	Issues
Financial Aid & Affordability \| Washington and Lee Universitywww.wlu.edu/admissions/financial-aid	6
Outcomeswww.wlu.edu/outcomes	5
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.wlu.edu/	4
Givingwww.wlu.edu/giving	4
Visitorswww.wlu.edu/visitors	4
About W&Lwww.wlu.edu/about-w-l	4
Homewww.wlu.edu/	4
Familieswww.wlu.edu/families	3

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Washington and Lee University

Where this issue has occurred