Savings interest rate calculator | YBS

Looking After Our Savers with Our Savings Pledges | Savings | YBS

My Online Account | Help & Support | YBS

Welcome to Yorkshire Building Society | YBS

Cash ISAs | Our Best ISA Rates | Fixed and Variable | YBS

Offset Mortgages | Availability, costs and guides | YBS

New Build Mortgages | Explore our New Build Mortgage deals | YBS

My Money Guides | YBS

Children's savings accounts | Open a kid's saving account | YBS

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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Yorkshire Building Society

Title / URL	Issues
Savings interest rate calculator \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/savings-calculator	5
Looking After Our Savers with Our Savings Pledges \| Savings \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/savings/pledges	1
My Online Account \| Help & Support \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/help/online	1
Welcome to Yorkshire Building Society \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Cash ISAs \| Our Best ISA Rates \| Fixed and Variable \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/savings/isas	1
Offset Mortgages \| Availability, costs and guides \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/mortgages/offset-mortgages	1
New Build Mortgages \| Explore our New Build Mortgage deals \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/mortgages/new-build	1
Welcome to Yorkshire Building Society \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/	1
My Money Guides \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/guides/my-money	1
Children's savings accounts \| Open a kid's saving account \| YBSwww.ybs.co.uk/savings/childrens-savings	1

Ensure form controls have labels

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