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Macmillan Cancer Support | The UK's leading cancer care charity

Your new Macmillan account

How to volunteer for Macmillan | Macmillan Cancer Support

Volunteering | Macmillan Cancer Support

Resources for volunteers | Macmillan Cancer Support

Play the Macmillan Lottery or Raffle to win cash prizes | Macmillan Cancer Support

Stories and news | Macmillan Cancer Support

Cancer information and support | Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan Advocacy | Macmillan Cancer Support

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

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Macmillan Cancer support

	Title / URL	Issues
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.macmillan.org.uk/	18
	Macmillan Cancer Support \| The UK's leading cancer care charitywww.macmillan.org.uk/	18
	Your new Macmillan accountwww.macmillan.org.uk/why-join	18
	How to volunteer for Macmillan \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/volunteering/how-to-volunteer	16
	Volunteering \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/volunteering	16
	Resources for volunteers \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/volunteering/resources-for-volunteers	13
	Play the Macmillan Lottery or Raffle to win cash prizes \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/fundraise/lottery-and-raffle	13
	Stories and news \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/volunteering/news-and-stories	13
	Cancer information and support \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support	12
	Macmillan Advocacy \| Macmillan Cancer Supportwww.macmillan.org.uk/advocacy	11

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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