Canadian Coast Guard College

Programs and services

Marine Communications and Traffic Services

Wrecked, abandoned or hazardous vessels

Contact the Canadian Coast Guard

Canadian Coast Guard fleet

Navigation

Canadian Coast Guard

Live the experience of a lifetime every day

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

May 2025

April 2025

Title / URL	Issues
Canadian Coast Guard Collegewww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/college/index-eng.html	4
Programs and serviceswww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/programs-services-eng.html	2
Marine Communications and Traffic Serviceswww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/mcts-sctm/index-eng.html	2
Wrecked, abandoned or hazardous vesselswww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/awah-ienad/index-eng.html	2
Contact the Canadian Coast Guardwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/contact/index-eng.html	2
Canadian Coast Guard fleetwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/fleet-flotte/index-eng.html	2
Navigationwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/navigation/index-eng.html	2
Canadian Coast Guardwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/index-eng.html	2
Live the experience of a lifetime every daywww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/jobs-emplois-eng.html	2
Canadian Coast Guardwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/index-eng.html?wbdisable=true	2

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Canadian Coast Guard

Where this issue has occurred