diff --git a/src/components/copy-button/copy-button.ts b/src/components/copy-button/copy-button.ts
index 10ca2cede..b8aa862c5 100644
--- a/src/components/copy-button/copy-button.ts
+++ b/src/components/copy-button/copy-button.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import '../icon/icon.js';
 import '../tooltip/tooltip.js';
+import '../visually-hidden/visually-hidden.js';
 import { animateWithClass } from '../../internal/animate.js';
 import { classMap } from 'lit/directives/class-map.js';
 import { customElement, property, query, state } from 'lit/decorators.js';
@@ -201,6 +202,8 @@ export default class WaCopyButton extends WebAwesomeElement {
         ?disabled=${this.disabled}
         @click=${this.handleCopy}
       >
+        <!-- Render a visually hidden label to appease the accessibility checking gods -->
+        <wa-visually-hidden>${this.currentLabel}</wa-visually-hidden>
         <slot part="copy-icon" name="copy-icon">
           <wa-icon library="system" name="copy" variant="regular" fixed-width></wa-icon>
         </slot>
diff --git a/src/components/tooltip/tooltip.ts b/src/components/tooltip/tooltip.ts
index f792cd944..c19bcf7f4 100644
--- a/src/components/tooltip/tooltip.ts
+++ b/src/components/tooltip/tooltip.ts
@@ -273,7 +273,12 @@ export default class WaTooltip extends WebAwesomeElement {
        */
       const currentLabel = newAnchor.getAttribute('aria-labelledby') || '';
       if (!currentLabel.match(labelRegex)) {
-        newAnchor.setAttribute('aria-labelledby', currentLabel + ' ' + this.id);
+
+        if (!currentLabel) {
+          newAnchor.setAttribute('aria-labelledby', this.id);
+        } else {
+          newAnchor.setAttribute('aria-labelledby', currentLabel + ' ' + this.id);
+        }
       }
 
       newAnchor.addEventListener('blur', this.handleBlur, { capture: true, signal });