diff --git a/internal/core/templates/add_repeater.html b/internal/core/templates/add_repeater.html
index 0262ae0..070fca4 100644
--- a/internal/core/templates/add_repeater.html
+++ b/internal/core/templates/add_repeater.html
@@ -176,14 +176,16 @@
     </div>
     <div id="key-prefix" class="mb-2" hidden>
       <div class="input-group">
-        <input type="text" class="form-control font-monospace" id="prefix" placeholder="e.g. beef" pattern="[0-9a-fA-F]*">
+        <input type="text" class="form-control font-monospace" id="prefix" placeholder="e.g. beef" pattern="[0-9a-fA-F]*"
+               aria-label="Desired public key prefix (hex)">
         <button type="button" class="btn" id="grind">Generate</button>
         <button type="button" class="btn btn-link" id="grind-stop" hidden>Stop</button>
       </div>
       <small class="form-hint">Hex only (0-9, a-f). Each extra character takes ~16× longer to find — long prefixes may take a very long time.</small>
     </div>
     <div id="key-paste" class="mb-2" hidden>
-      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" id="privkey" rows="2" placeholder="128 hex chars (64-byte key) or 64 hex chars (32-byte seed)"></textarea>
+      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" id="privkey" rows="2" placeholder="128 hex chars (64-byte key) or 64 hex chars (32-byte seed)"
+                aria-label="Existing private key or seed (hex)"></textarea>
     </div>
 
     <div class="mb-3">
diff --git a/internal/core/templates/config_regions_edit.html b/internal/core/templates/config_regions_edit.html
index fd785d1..91c6c6f 100644
--- a/internal/core/templates/config_regions_edit.html
+++ b/internal/core/templates/config_regions_edit.html
@@ -129,11 +129,14 @@ function addBlock(kind) {
   <div class="card-body">
     <div class="row g-2 align-items-end">
       <div class="col-12"><label class="form-label mb-1">Display name</label>
-        <input class="form-control" name="region_display" value="{{.DisplayName}}" placeholder="Buffalo"></div>
+        <input class="form-control" name="region_display" value="{{.DisplayName}}" placeholder="Buffalo"
+               aria-label="Region display name"></div>
       <div class="col"><label class="form-label mb-1">Name</label>
-        <input class="form-control font-monospace" name="region_token" value="{{.Token}}" placeholder="buf"></div>
+        <input class="form-control font-monospace" name="region_token" value="{{.Token}}" placeholder="buf"
+               aria-label="Region name (token used in commands)"></div>
       <div class="col-auto"><label class="form-label mb-1">Level</label>
-        <input class="form-control" type="number" name="region_layer" value="{{.Layer}}" style="width:5rem"></div>
+        <input class="form-control" type="number" name="region_layer" value="{{.Layer}}" style="width:5rem"
+               aria-label="Region level"></div>
     </div>
     {{/* Settings/state: the region's own properties, shown as switches (matching
          the root's flood switch) so each toggle reads clearly with its label,
diff --git a/internal/core/templates/repeater_docs.html b/internal/core/templates/repeater_docs.html
index ead6ed3..6c7684d 100644
--- a/internal/core/templates/repeater_docs.html
+++ b/internal/core/templates/repeater_docs.html
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
         Shown on the public page when one is published.
         <strong>Do not put gate codes, lock combinations, or other site-access secrets here</strong> — use the internal section below for those.
       </p>
-      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" name="doc_public" rows="10" maxlength="20000" placeholder="Hardware, antenna, power/solar, firmware, how to service…">{{.Repeater.DocPublic}}</textarea>
+      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" name="doc_public" rows="10" maxlength="20000" placeholder="Hardware, antenna, power/solar, firmware, how to service…"
+                aria-label="Public documentation (Markdown)">{{.Repeater.DocPublic}}</textarea>
     </div>
   </div>
 
@@ -29,7 +30,8 @@
         Sensitive site-access details — gate codes, lock combinations, landlord/contact info, climbing notes.
         Only the owner, stewards, and people you've shared with can read this. <strong>Never shown on the public page.</strong>
       </p>
-      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" name="doc_internal" rows="8" maxlength="20000" placeholder="Gate code, lock combo, who to call for site access…">{{.Repeater.DocInternal}}</textarea>
+      <textarea class="form-control font-monospace" name="doc_internal" rows="8" maxlength="20000" placeholder="Gate code, lock combo, who to call for site access…"
+                aria-label="Internal notes (Markdown, not public)">{{.Repeater.DocInternal}}</textarea>
     </div>
   </div>
 
diff --git a/internal/marketing/templates/docs.html b/internal/marketing/templates/docs.html
index e8f3363..dcf0f1a 100644
--- a/internal/marketing/templates/docs.html
+++ b/internal/marketing/templates/docs.html
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
         <p>Run this on your repeater — through the <strong>repeater console in the MeshCore companion app</strong>, directly over USB serial, or let MeshTender run it for you during USB setup:</p>
         {{if .SetPermCommand}}
         <div class="input-group mb-2">
-          <input type="text" class="form-control font-monospace" id="setperm-cmd" value="{{.SetPermCommand}}" readonly>
+          <input type="text" class="form-control font-monospace" id="setperm-cmd" value="{{.SetPermCommand}}"
+                 aria-label="setperm command with MeshTender's public key" readonly>
           <button type="button" class="btn" data-copy-target="#setperm-cmd">Copy</button>
         </div>
         <p class="text-secondary small mb-0">The long value is <strong>MeshTender's</strong> public key — not your repeater's. If you see a guest-access warning after confirming a repeater, this is the fix: run the command above, then confirm again.</p>
diff --git a/internal/web/security_test.go b/internal/web/security_test.go
index 1e0e631..ac8dbc9 100644
--- a/internal/web/security_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/security_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package web
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"os"
@@ -192,6 +193,94 @@ func TestTemplatesHeadingConventions(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// controlRe matches a form control's opening tag.
+var controlRe = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<(input|select|textarea)\b([^>]*)>`)
+
+// namedRe matches the attributes that give a control an accessible name directly.
+var namedRe = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)aria-label\s*=|aria-labelledby\s*=|\btitle\s*=`)
+
+// skipTypes are input types with no user-visible value to name.
+var skipTypes = map[string]bool{
+	"hidden": true, "submit": true, "button": true, "image": true, "reset": true,
+}
+
+// TestTemplatesFormControlsAreLabeled enforces that every form control has an
+// accessible name. Without one, a screen reader announces "edit text, blank" and the
+// user has to guess from surrounding prose — assuming they find it at all.
+//
+// A control counts as named by any of:
+//   - aria-label / aria-labelledby / title on the control
+//   - a <label for="..."> anywhere in the template set (labels sometimes live in a
+//     different file from their control, e.g. shared partials)
+//   - being wrapped in its own <label> (Bootstrap's form-check pattern) — this is why
+//     a naive for=/id scan is useless here: it reports 22 false positives on this
+//     codebase.
+//
+// Note a placeholder is NOT a label: it vanishes on input and is not reliably
+// announced. Neither is a nearby heading, nor a <label> that lacks for= and doesn't
+// wrap its control — that last one looks correct in the markup and is the trap this
+// test exists to catch (audit A3 found three of them in the region editor).
+func TestTemplatesFormControlsAreLabeled(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	root := moduleRoot(t)
+
+	// Pass 1: every for= target across all templates.
+	labelFor := map[string]bool{}
+	forRe := regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<label[^>]*\bfor="([^"]+)"`)
+	var files []string
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(filepath.Join(root, "internal"), func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(path, ".html") {
+			return nil
+		}
+		files = append(files, path)
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		for _, m := range forRe.FindAllSubmatch(b, -1) {
+			labelFor[string(m[1])] = true
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("walk templates: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	idRe := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bid="([^"]+)"`)
+	typeRe := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)type="([^"]+)"`)
+	for _, path := range files {
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("read %s: %v", path, err)
+		}
+		rel, _ := filepath.Rel(root, path)
+		for _, loc := range controlRe.FindAllSubmatchIndex(b, -1) {
+			tag := string(b[loc[2]:loc[3]])
+			attrs := b[loc[4]:loc[5]]
+			if tm := typeRe.FindSubmatch(attrs); tag == "input" && tm != nil &&
+				skipTypes[strings.ToLower(string(tm[1]))] {
+				continue
+			}
+			if namedRe.Match(attrs) {
+				continue
+			}
+			if im := idRe.FindSubmatch(attrs); im != nil && labelFor[string(im[1])] {
+				continue
+			}
+			// Wrapped by its own <label>? Count unclosed <label> tags before it.
+			before := b[:loc[0]]
+			if bytes.Count(before, []byte("<label")) > bytes.Count(before, []byte("</label>")) {
+				continue
+			}
+			t.Errorf("%s: <%s> has no accessible name (add aria-label, or a <label for=> / "+
+				"wrapping <label>): %q", rel, tag, snippet(b, loc[0]))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func snippet(b []byte, at int) string {
 	end := at + 40
 	if end > len(b) {