Causes of MS | MS Trust

A-Z of MS | Multiple sclerosis encyclopedia | MS Trust

Exercise and MS | MS Trust

Staying Smart | Cognitive health and MS

Newly diagnosed | MS Trust

Home and travel | MS Trust

MS research | MS Trust

Wellbeing and MS | MS Trust

Work, money and legal | MS Trust

Care and carers | MS Trust

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

October 2025

September 2025

Multiple Sclerosis Trust

	Title / URL	Issues
	Causes of MS \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/about-ms/causes-ms	87
	A-Z of MS \| Multiple sclerosis encyclopedia \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/a-z	80
	Exercise and MS \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/exercise-ms	78
	Staying Smart \| Cognitive health and MSmstrust.org.uk/information-support/staying-smart	78
	Newly diagnosed \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/newly-diagnosed	78
	Home and travel \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/home-and-travel	78
	MS research \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/ms-research	78
	Wellbeing and MS \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/wellbeing-ms	78
	Work, money and legal \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/work-money-legal	78
	Care and carers \| MS Trustmstrust.org.uk/information-support/care-and-carers	78

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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