diff --git a/i18n/en.json b/i18n/en.json
index 41a21a750..b68d9eeeb 100644
--- a/i18n/en.json
+++ b/i18n/en.json
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 	"mobile-frontend-user-page-member-since": "{{GENDER:$2|Joined}} $1",
 	"mobile-frontend-user-page-talk": "Talk",
 	"minerva-user-menu-button": "User menu",
+	"minerva-user-navigation": "User navigation",
 	"minerva-page-actions-overflow": "More",
 	"minerva-page-actions-info": "Page information",
 	"minerva-page-actions-permalink": "Permanent link",
diff --git a/i18n/qqq.json b/i18n/qqq.json
index ae5119429..8a4cc55fc 100644
--- a/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 	"mobile-frontend-user-page-member-since": "Message below the heading. $1 is the user registration date. $2 is the gender associated with the user account.",
 	"mobile-frontend-user-page-talk": "Text of the link to the user's talk page\n{{Identical|Talk}}",
 	"minerva-user-menu-button": "Text describing the user menu",
+	"minerva-user-navigation": "Text describing the navigation menus available in the top header.",
 	"minerva-page-actions-overflow": "In the secondary page menu, short text describing the button that triggers the drop-down menu\n{{Identical|More}}",
 	"minerva-page-actions-info": "In the secondary page menu, the page information button label",
 	"minerva-page-actions-permalink": "In the secondary page menu, the permanent link button label\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|permalink}}",
diff --git a/includes/skins/MinervaTemplate.php b/includes/skins/MinervaTemplate.php
index 1aba678e0..1058ca2b9 100644
--- a/includes/skins/MinervaTemplate.php
+++ b/includes/skins/MinervaTemplate.php
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ class MinervaTemplate extends BaseTemplate {
 			'menuButton' => $data['mainMenu']['buttonHTML'],
 			'siteheading' => $data['footer-site-heading-html'],
 			'mainPageURL' => Title::newMainPage()->getLocalURL(),
+			'userNavigationLabel' => wfMessage( 'minerva-user-navigation' ),
 			// A button when clicked will submit the form
 			// This is used so that on tablet devices with JS disabled the search button
 			// passes the value of input to the search
diff --git a/includes/skins/minerva.mustache b/includes/skins/minerva.mustache
index 13b37f6af..e6641d4cd 100644
--- a/includes/skins/minerva.mustache
+++ b/includes/skins/minerva.mustache
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 						autocomplete="off" placeholder="{{placeholder}}" aria-label="{{placeholder}}"
 						value="{{search}}">
 				</div>
-				<nav class="minerva-user-navigation" aria-labelledby="minerva-user-menu-toggle"> {{! See ToggleList's toggleID. }}
+				<nav class="minerva-user-navigation" aria-label="{{userNavigationLabel}}">
 					<div>{{{searchButton}}}</div>
 					{{^isAnon}}
 							<div class="minerva-user-notifications" id="pt-notifications-alert">