ARIA control has no label Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

ARIA control has no label.

Help

A label (or name) linked to the control allows screen readers to voice the label correctly when reading the control. To add a label do one of the following:

• Add an aria-label attribute
• Add an aria-labelledby attribute

Applicable standards

• ACT Rules e086e5
• WCAG 2.0 4.1.2
• WCAG 2.1 4.1.2
• Section 508 (2017) 4.1.2

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 5.36 Jan 2020 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccAriaControlLabelMissing