Broken label for reference Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

The label for attribute refers to a non-existent control.

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This happens when the for attribute doesn’t exactly match a control id, or targets a control name instead of a control id.

Applicable standards

Change history

  • 5.36 Jan 2020 Removed - this is only a failure if a control is unlabeled, which is detected by other rules.
  • 5.8 Mar 2015 No longer triggers F17, which was removed from the February 2015 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0.
  • 4.7 Jun 2012 Now triggers Section 508 1194.22 (n).
  • 3.4 Sep 2009 Now triggers WCAG 2 F17, replacing the F17 rule which detected exactly same issue.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

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

Rule ID: AccWcag1-12.4.3