About YSU | YSU

Home | YSU

YSU Academic Senate | YSU

The Writing Center | YSU

Page not found | YSU

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Parking Services | YSU

Workforce Education and Innovation | YSU

Office of the Dean of Students | YSU

Campus Recreation | YSU

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

October 2025

September 2025

Youngstown State University

Title / URL	Issues
About YSU \| YSUysu.edu/about-ysu	1
Home \| YSUysu.edu/	1
YSU Academic Senate \| YSUysu.edu/ysu-academic-senate	1
The Writing Center \| YSUysu.edu/writing-center	1
Page not found \| YSUysu.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingysu.edu/	1
Parking Services \| YSUysu.edu/parking-services	1
Workforce Education and Innovation \| YSUysu.edu/workforce	1
Office of the Dean of Students \| YSUysu.edu/dean-of-students	1
Campus Recreation \| YSUysu.edu/campus-recreation	1

Fix missing ARIA label IDs

Youngstown State University

Where this issue has occurred