Government | Oceanside, CA

Residents | Oceanside, CA

City Services | Oceanside, CA

Visitors | Oceanside, CA

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Oceanside, CA | Home

Water Utilities | Oceanside, CA

Water Efficiency | Oceanside, CA

Special Events | Oceanside, CA

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

July 2025

June 2025

City of Oceanside

Title / URL	Issues
Government \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/government	85
Residents \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/residents	56
City Services \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/residents/city-services	32
Visitors \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/visitors	28
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/	20
Oceanside, CA \| Homewww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/home	20
Oceanside, CA \| Homewww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/	20
Water Utilities \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/government/water-utilities	18
Water Efficiency \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/government/water-utilities/environmental-services-programs/water-efficiency	18
Special Events \| Oceanside, CAwww.ci.oceanside.ca.us/government/parks-recreation/special-events	15

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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