Services beginning with C | Oldham Council

Services beginning with M | Oldham Council

Castleshaw Centre for Outdoor Education | Oldham Council

Protecting children | Oldham Council

News archive | Oldham Council

Services beginning with Z | Oldham Council

Report a problem with a park | About your query

Pollution | Oldham Council

Markets | Oldham Council

Planning and building | Oldham 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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March 2025

February 2025

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Services beginning with C \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/a_to_z/C	16
Services beginning with M \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/a_to_z/M	16
Castleshaw Centre for Outdoor Education \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/info/200228/outdoor_education	16
Protecting children \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/info/200386/child_protection	14
News archive \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/news/archive	14
Services beginning with Z \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/a_to_z/Z	14
Report a problem with a park \| About your querywww.oldham.gov.uk/xfp/form/1200	14
Pollution \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/info/200237/pollution	14
Markets \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/info/200278/markets	14
Planning and building \| Oldham Councilwww.oldham.gov.uk/info/200199/planning_and_building	14

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred