Report, book & apply | What do you want to report, book or apply for? – Lichfield District Council

Services

Translation

Public notices

About the council

Housing advice

Contacts and opening hours

Making our services accessible – Visiting us in person

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

August 2025

July 2025

Lichfield District Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Report, book & apply \| What do you want to report, book or apply for? – Lichfield District Councilwww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/oneform	100
	Report, book & apply \| What do you want to report, book or apply for? – Lichfield District Councilwww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/xfp/form/347	100
	Serviceswww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/services-1	32
	Serviceswww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/allservices	32
	Translationwww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/council/translation	18
	Public noticeswww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/council/public-notices	11
	About the councilwww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/homepage/94/council	6
	Housing advicewww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/housing	6
	Contacts and opening hourswww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/contact	6
	Making our services accessible – Visiting us in personwww.lichfielddc.gov.uk/accessibility	6

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Lichfield District Council

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