Invalid aria-controls value Web Standard

Description

Bad value for attribute aria-controls.

Help

The aria-controls lists IDs of other elements on the page controlled by this element.

Applicable standards

• 4e8ab6
• 5.2.2
• (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• (Success Criteria: 4.1.2 level A)
• HTML

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints. EN 301 549 checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.1 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 2026.60 Apr 2026 Added mapping to ARIA 1.3.
• 5.0 Oct 2012 Added.

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

Rule ID: W3cHtml5Error-RnvErAval-aria-controls