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Labels Everywhere

MUST

MUST: Every control has a <label> or is associated with a label for assistive tech

Every form control must have a visible label or accessible name

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Why it matters

Labels are crucial for accessibility. Screen reader users need labels to understand what each form field is for. Sighted users benefit from clear labels too. Use the <label> element with the "for" attribute pointing to the input's id, or wrap the input inside the label.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.