SOAS journals and books | SOAS

School of Arts | SOAS

Tuition fees | SOAS

Request a certificate | SOAS

Policies and procedures | SOAS

How to apply for postgraduate study | SOAS

Study | SOAS

Undergraduate | SOAS

Postgraduate | SOAS

International | SOAS

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

June 2025

May 2025

SOAS University of London

Title / URL	Issues
SOAS journals and books \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/research/soas-journals-and-books	33
School of Arts \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/about/schools-and-departments/school-arts	19
Tuition fees \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees	16
Request a certificate \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/about/alumni/request-certificate	13
Policies and procedures \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/about/governance/policies-and-procedures	12
How to apply for postgraduate study \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/study/apply-soas/how-apply-postgraduate-study	12
Study \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/study	11
Undergraduate \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/study/undergraduate	11
Postgraduate \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/study/postgraduate	11
International \| SOASwww.soas.ac.uk/international	10

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

SOAS University of London

Where this issue has occurred