Using your devices – Bolton Council

Open Data – Bolton Council

How to vote – Bolton Council

Notices and results – Bolton Council

Postal vote – Bolton Council

Voter ID and accessibility – Bolton Council

Proxy vote – Bolton Council

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

October 2025

September 2025

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Using your devices – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/libraries/using-devices/1	6
	Open Data – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/directory/17/open-data	4
	How to vote – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/vote	3
	Notices and results – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/notices-results-1/1	3
	How to vote – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/vote/4	3
	Postal vote – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/postal-vote	3
	Voter ID and accessibility – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/voter-id	3
	Proxy vote – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/proxy-vote/1	3
	How to vote – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/vote/3	3
	Notices and results – Bolton Councilwww.bolton.gov.uk/voting/notices-results-1	3

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred