Procurement – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Council Information – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Home Page – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Health, Sport and Leisure – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Parking, Travel and Roads – Ribble Valley Borough Council

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Gambling Act 2005 – Ribble Valley Borough 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.

a-duplicate-link-text-for-different-destinations

September 2025

August 2025

Ribble Valley Borough Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Procurement – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/procurement-3/procurement/2	4
	Procurement – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/procurement-3/procurement	4
	Council Information – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/council	4
	Home Page – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/	2
	Health, Sport and Leisure – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/sport-leisure	2
	Parking, Travel and Roads – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/parking-travel	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/	2
	Gambling Act 2005 – Ribble Valley Borough Councilwww.ribblevalley.gov.uk/licensing/gambling-act-2005	2

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Ribble Valley Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred