First time visit: View without clicking anything

Welcome to Watford – www.watford.gov.uk

Watford Borough Council – www.watford.gov.uk

Sustainable Watford – Sustainable Watford

Green Transport – www.watford.gov.uk

Gambling licensing – www.watford.gov.uk

Page 2 - Latest news – www.watford.gov.uk

Services for help to stop smoking – www.watford.gov.uk

Physical Health and Wellbeing – www.watford.gov.uk

Neighbourhood Grant – www.watford.gov.uk

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.

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January 2026

December 2025

Watford Borough Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.watford.gov.uk/	4
	Welcome to Watford – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/welcome-watford	4
	Watford Borough Council – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/	4
	Sustainable Watford – Sustainable Watfordwww.watford.gov.uk/sustainable-watford/	4
	Green Transport – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/green-transport-1	4
	Gambling licensing – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/licensing-3/gambling-licensing	4
	Page 2 - Latest news – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/news?page=2	2
	Services for help to stop smoking – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/healthy-hub/services-help-stop-smoking	2
	Physical Health and Wellbeing – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/physicalhealth	2
	Neighbourhood Grant – www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk/neighbourhood-grant	2

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Watford Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred