WECU | Financial Calculators | Helpful Tools & Resources

WECU | Not-for-Profit Credit Union | Banking & Loans

Learn | WECU

Home Loans | Competitive Rates and Flexible Terms | WECU

Error Page - WECU

About Us | WECU

Careers | WECU

Deposit Interest Rates | WECU

Leadership | WECU

WECU | Make A Payment

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

Whatcom Educational Credit Union

Title / URL	Issues
WECU \| Financial Calculators \| Helpful Tools & Resourceswww.wecu.com/calculators/	1
WECU \| Not-for-Profit Credit Union \| Banking & Loanswww.wecu.com/	1
Learn \| WECUwww.wecu.com/learn/	1
Home Loans \| Competitive Rates and Flexible Terms \| WECUwww.wecu.com/homeloans/	1
Error Page - WECUwww.wecu.com/invented-url-for-404-page	1
About Us \| WECUwww.wecu.com/about/	1
Careers \| WECUwww.wecu.com/careers/	1
Deposit Interest Rates \| WECUwww.wecu.com/rates/	1
Leadership \| WECUwww.wecu.com/leadership/	1
WECU \| Make A Paymentwww.wecu.com/makepayment/	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Whatcom Educational Credit Union

Where this issue has occurred