Canteens and cafés | UAL

People | UAL

Courses | UAL

Student Careers | UAL

Stories | UAL

arts shop | UAL

Short Courses | UAL

Help and support | UAL

What's on | UAL

Scholarships | UAL

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

University of the Arts London

Title / URL	Issues
Canteens and cafés \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/students/canteens	47
People \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/search/people	43
Courses \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/search/courses	37
Student Careers \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/students/student-careers	37
Stories \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/students/student-careers/stories	37
arts shop \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/facilities/arts-shop	37
Short Courses \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/short-courses	36
Help and support \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/students/help-and-support-for-students	35
What's on \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/search/whats-on	35
Scholarships \| UALwww.arts.ac.uk/search/scholarships	35

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

University of the Arts London

Where this issue has occurred