Park and Ride Longbridge

Thrive at Work

Sprint A34 Route

Good Gym in Coventry

Projects

Turning change into action

Change into Action in Solihull

Coventry Station

Housing First

Page not found

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

West Midlands Combined Authority

	Title / URL	Issues
	Park and Ride Longbridgewww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/park-and-ride-longbridge/	1
	Thrive at Workwww.wmca.org.uk/what-we-do/wellbeing/thrive-at-work/	1
	Sprint A34 Routewww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/sprint-a34-route/	1
	Good Gym in Coventrywww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/good-gym-in-coventry/	1
	Projectswww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/areas/birmingham/projects/?cat=wellbeing	1
	Turning change into actionwww.wmca.org.uk/news/turning-change-into-action/	1
	Change into Action in Solihullwww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/change-into-action-in-solihull/	1
	Coventry Stationwww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/coventry-station/	1
	Housing Firstwww.wmca.org.uk/in-my-area/projects/housing-first/	1
	Page not foundwww.wmca.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

West Midlands Combined Authority

Where this issue has occurred