Complaints - Gateshead Council

What's on - Gateshead Council

Sign in - Gateshead Council

First time visit: View without clicking anything

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Your home - Gateshead Council

Abandoned vehicles - Gateshead Council

Children, young people and families - Gateshead Council

About the council - Gateshead Council

Deaths and funerals - Gateshead 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.

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November 2025

October 2025

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Complaints - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/10523/Complaints	49
	What's on - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/9646/What-s-on	34
	Sign in - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/signin	28
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.gateshead.gov.uk/	24
	Gateshead Council - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/	24
	Your home - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/11735/Your-home	23
	Abandoned vehicles - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/4508/Abandoned-vehicles	23
	Children, young people and families - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/childrenandfamilies	23
	About the council - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/aboutthecouncil	22
	Deaths and funerals - Gateshead Councilwww.gateshead.gov.uk/article/2842/Deaths-and-funerals	22

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred