label without control Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

label elements should be attached to the controls they label.

Help

Add a FOR attribute set to the ID of the associated control, or wrap the LABEL round the associated control, or use a different element if this isn’t a control label.

Applicable standards

  • WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A, 4.1.2 level A)
  • WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A, 4.1.2 level A)
  • WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A, 4.1.2 level A)
  • Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A, 4.1.2 level A)

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

Change history

  • 5.36 Jan 2020 Removed - unlabeled controls detected by another rule, and this fired even if all controls had labels.
  • 3.0 Dec 2008 Now triggers WCAG2 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: AccWcag1-12.4.1