Title: WAVE evaluation tool error
Last modified: May 4, 2025

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# WAVE evaluation tool error

 *  Resolved [sofiataz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofiataz/)
 * (@sofiataz)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wave-evaluation-tool-error/)
 * Hello
 * The WAVE (Web accessibillity evaluation tool) displays a Missing Form Labels 
   error message when a contact form contains the check box of hcaptcha. The error
   lies on the following textareas, cause no label tag is present.
 * <textarea id=”g-recaptcha-response-20kaul9eh095e” name=”g-recaptcha-response”
   style=”display: none;”></textarea>
   <textarea id=”h-captcha-response-20kaul9eh095e”
   name=”h-captcha-response” style=”display: none;”></textarea>
 * How can this problem be solved?
 * Thanks in advance
    -  This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by [sofiataz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofiataz/).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [kaggdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaggdesign/)
 * (@kaggdesign)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wave-evaluation-tool-error/#post-18448553)
 * Hello [@sofiataz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofiataz/),
 * The text areas mentioned have solely technical reasons for storing the result
   of the hCaptcha challenge. They are never shown to the user. A label should exist
   for a visible element to serve its accessibility and usability. Therefore, demanding
   a label for always hidden elements has no logic and leads to bloated HTML code
   without any help for a user.
 * These text areas are added to the DOM by the hCaptcha API script. The WordPress
   plugin loads this script from the hcaptcha.com site. I have no access to its 
   code and cannot make any changes. You can leave a message on the hcaptcha.com
   website.
 * But the better way is to tell WAVE that all popular CAPTCHA services (Google 
   reCaptcha, Turnstile, and Captcha) do not have labels for hidden elements. WAVE
   should add these cases to the exclusion list and not report them at all.
 * I close this ticket as I cannot help with adding labels to the text areas. Thank
   you.

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 * Last reply from: [kaggdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaggdesign/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wave-evaluation-tool-error/#post-18448553)
 * Status: resolved