Members of the COT | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2019 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2021 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2020 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2022 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

All AEJEG Meetings | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2023 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

COT 2024 meeting notes | Committee on Toxicity

PFAS | Committee on Toxicity

Screen reader users will see links on a page listed without context, 
so you should ensure the same link text is not used to point to different web
addresses.

For example:

```html

 Learn the latest about our products: 
 <a href="/products/news">News</a>



 Learn the latest about our services: 
 <a href="/company/news">News</a>

``` 

To a screen reader who is listing links, they will only hear:

* News
* News

These links appear to be the same, but they both behave differently. 
One solution, which doesn't require the page design to change, is to add an 
`aria-label` for each link:

```html

 Learn the latest about our products: 
 <a href="/products/news" aria-label="Product news">News</a>



 Learn the latest about our services: 
 <a href="/company/news" aria-label="Company news">News</a>

``` 

Which will be heard as:

* Product news
* Company news

To pass this checkpoint, make sure that links which point to different pages 
have distinct text inside them, or that they specify ARIA labels (`aria-labelledby` or
`aria-label`), or they use hidden text only visible to screen readers
(e.g. `...`) to distinguish them from each 
other.

If links point to the same page (e.g., they redirect or use tracking
parameters, but are functionally equivalent to the user) you can ignore
this issue.

a-duplicate-link-text-for-different-destinations

August 2025

July 2025

Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment

Title / URL	Issues
Members of the COT \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/COTmembers	33
COT 2019 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/2019COTmeetings	18
COT 2021 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/2021COTmeetings	16
COT 2020 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/2020COTmeetings	15
COT 2022 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/2022COTmeetings	14
All AEJEG Meetings \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/All%20AEJEG%20Meetings	12
COT 2023 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/2023COTmeetings	6
COT 2024 meeting notes \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/COT%202024%20meeting%20notes	3
PFAS \| Committee on Toxicitycot.food.gov.uk/PFAS	3

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment

Where this issue has occurred