Accessibility: Best Practice – Form Elements Should Have Visible Label

Form <input> elements may be given a title using the title or aria-describedby attributes – but not both. These attributes are used to provide additional information, such as a hint.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Form Elements Should Have Visible Label’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure that every form element has a visible label and is not solely labeled using hidden labels, or the title or aria-describedby attributes.