Freedom of Information - West Midlands Fire Service

Finance and Spending - West Midlands Fire Service

Our Services - West Midlands Fire Service

Operation Hercules - West Midlands Fire Service

Community Archives - West Midlands Fire Service

Cyclists - West Midlands Fire Service

Governance Archives - West Midlands Fire Service

General services - West Midlands Fire Service

Camping and caravans - West Midlands Fire Service

Candle safety - West Midlands Fire Service

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

April 2025

March 2025

West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service

Title / URL	Issues
Freedom of Information - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/document-categories/foi-documents/	1
Finance and Spending - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/foi_categories/foi-finance/	1
Our Services - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/our-services/	1
Operation Hercules - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/our-services/operation-hercules/	1
Community Archives - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/news-categories/community/	1
Cyclists - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/safety/cyclists/	1
Governance Archives - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/news-categories/governance/	1
General services - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/service-categories/general-services/	1
Camping and caravans - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/safety/camping-and-caravans/	1
Candle safety - West Midlands Fire Servicewww.wmfs.net/safety/candle-safety/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service

Where this issue has occurred