Contact | Wyedean Housing Association

All Change! | Wyedean Housing Association

Library | Wyedean Housing Association

Useful Links | Wyedean Housing Association

Privacy Policy | Wyedean Housing Association

Meet The Team | Wyedean Housing Association

Spring Bank Holiday week… | Wyedean Housing Association

Easier ways to pay | Wyedean Housing Association

Complaints | Wyedean Housing Association

Residents | Wyedean Housing Association

People using screen readers are not able to see the layout of a form. To make forms
accessible, they must define explicit text labels for each form control. 

Usually the best solution is to use a `<label>` element. The label may be linked to 
by the form control:

```html
<label for="name">Full name</label>
<input type="name" id="name">
```

or the `<label>` can be wrapped around the form control:

```html
<label>
    Full name <input type="name">
</label>
```

Buttons are different, as their labels are specified by the code for the button, e.g.

```html
<input type="submit" value="Send message">
<button>Send message</button>
```

Alternatively ARIA attributes, such as `aria-label` may be used, but this information
will not be conveyed to visual users. For more information, see [W3C's guide to labeling controls](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/).

Hidden input fields (`<input type="hidden">`) do not require labels.
Note that the `placeholder` attribute 
[should not be used as an alternative to a label](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/sec-forms.html#the-placeholder-attribute),
nor should the `title` attribute.

## Custom roles

Note that this check considers the underlying accessible role of an element, which can be 
different from the tag itself.

For example, this `<div>` has a `role` of `button`, and so is expected to have a label, like
a button would.

```html
<div role="button"></div>
```

form-control-labels

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Title / URL	Issues
Contact \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/contact/	7
All Change! \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/all-change/	3
Library \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/about/library/	3
Useful Links \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/about/useful-links/	3
Privacy Policy \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/privacy-policy/	3
Meet The Team \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/about/meet-the-team/	3
Spring Bank Holiday week… \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/may-day-holiday/	3
Easier ways to pay \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/easier-ways-to-pay/	3
Complaints \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/complaints/	3
Residents \| Wyedean Housing Associationwww.wyedean.org/residents/	3

Ensure form controls have labels

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