London life | New students | LSHTM

Get involved | Alumni | LSHTM

Centres, groups and projects | LSHTM

MRC Uganda | LSHTM

Alumni | LSHTM

MRC Gambia | LSHTM

Visas and immigration | Study with us | LSHTM

Give online | Support us | LSHTM

Working at LSHTM | About us | LSHTM

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases | Faculties and MRC units | LSHTM

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

April 2025

March 2025

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Title / URL	Issues
London life \| New students \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/study/new-students/london-life	47
Get involved \| Alumni \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/alumni/get-involved	40
Centres, groups and projects \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups	40
MRC Uganda \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/research/units/mrc-uganda	39
Alumni \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/alumni	39
MRC Gambia \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/research/units/mrc-gambia	38
Visas and immigration \| Study with us \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/study/visas-and-immigration	38
Give online \| Support us \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/supportus/give-online	36
Working at LSHTM \| About us \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/working-lshtm	35
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases \| Faculties and MRC units \| LSHTMwww.lshtm.ac.uk/research/faculties/itd	35

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Where this issue has occurred