Sandwell Council Site Map – Sandwell Council

Think Sandwell – Sandwell Council

Safer 6 campaign | Sandwell Council

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Council Jobs – Sandwell Council

Main Homepage – Sandwell Council

Our Job Vacancies – Sandwell Council

Resilient Residents – Sandwell Council

Environmental health – Sandwell 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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February 2025

January 2025

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Sandwell Council Site Map – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/site-map	14
Think Sandwell – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/ThinkSandwell	6
Safer 6 campaign \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/safer6	4
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.sandwell.gov.uk/	4
Council Jobs – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/CouncilJobs	4
Main Homepage – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/	4
Council Jobs – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/counciljobs	4
Our Job Vacancies – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/jobvacancies	4
Resilient Residents – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/resilientresidents	2
Environmental health – Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/environmental-health	2

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred