diff --git a/web/src/components/ChartSectionCard.tsx b/web/src/components/ChartSectionCard.tsx
index e7c9e341c..2a4b6e209 100644
--- a/web/src/components/ChartSectionCard.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/ChartSectionCard.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { cn } from 'cn';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { fetchApiText, type ChartSection, type ChartSpec, type Manifest } from '../api';
 import { downloadCsvText } from '../csv';
+import { chartViewName } from '../format';
 import { usePrintMode } from '../printContext';
 import { ChartSectionTitle } from './charts/leading';
 import { CopyLinkButton } from './CopyLinkButton';
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ function Figure({
   return (
     <figure
       hidden={hidden}
-      aria-label={`${chart.title} — ${active.label}`}
+      aria-label={chartViewName(chart.title, active.label)}
       className={cn(
         'm-0 min-w-0 rounded-xl border bg-background/40 p-3',
         (slide || fullRow) && 'col-span-full',
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ function Figure({
         <Suspense
           fallback={
             <p role="status" data-print-pending className="p-10 text-center text-muted-foreground">
-              Loading chart: {chart.title} ({active.label})…
+              Loading chart: {chartViewName(chart.title, active.label)}…
             </p>
           }
         >
diff --git a/web/src/components/InteractiveChart.tsx b/web/src/components/InteractiveChart.tsx
index daf298de9..2d0713da7 100644
--- a/web/src/components/InteractiveChart.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/InteractiveChart.tsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { RotateCwIcon } from 'lucide-react';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import type { ChartDocument, ChartVariant, Manifest } from '../api';
 import { fetchChartDocument } from '../chartData';
+import { chartViewName } from '../format';
 import { EventsView } from './charts/EventsView';
 import { MatrixView } from './charts/MatrixView';
 import { NetworkView } from './charts/NetworkView';
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ export default function InteractiveChart({
           data-print-pending
           className="flex h-[340px] items-center justify-center text-sm text-muted-foreground"
         >
-          Loading interactive chart: {title} ({variant.label})…
+          Loading interactive chart: {chartViewName(title, variant.label)}…
         </div>
       </>
     );
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ export default function InteractiveChart({
           data-print-error
           className="print-chart-status mb-4 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-3 rounded-lg border p-4 text-sm"
         >
-          Could not load chart data: {title} ({variant.label}).
+          Could not load chart data: {chartViewName(title, variant.label)}.
           <Button
             variant="outline"
             size="sm"
diff --git a/web/src/format.ts b/web/src/format.ts
index 350db29ac..75c8fe0de 100644
--- a/web/src/format.ts
+++ b/web/src/format.ts
@@ -28,3 +28,13 @@ export function stamp(iso: string): string {
 export function dateStamp(iso: string): string {
   return stamp(iso).slice(0, 10);
 }
+
+/**
+ * A chart view's name: its title, then the variant label when that adds something.
+ *
+ * A single-view chart's only label is its own title, so joining the two would
+ * have a screen reader announce "Activity heatmap — Activity heatmap".
+ */
+export function chartViewName(title: string, label: string): string {
+  return label === title ? title : `${title} — ${label}`;
+}
diff --git a/web/src/test/app.test.tsx b/web/src/test/app.test.tsx
index 8637dfe47..04c2414ca 100644
--- a/web/src/test/app.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/test/app.test.tsx
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ describe('Organisation diversity card (#435)', () => {
     return await screen.findByText('Organisation diversity');
   };
 
-  const chartVariant = (title: string) =>
-    screen.getByRole('figure', { name: new RegExp(`^${title} —`) }).getAttribute('aria-label');
+  // A figure is named "<title> — <variant>", or just its title when it has one view.
+  const figureNamed = (title: string) =>
+    screen.getByRole('figure', { name: new RegExp(`^${title}( —|$)`) });
+  const chartVariant = (title: string) => figureNamed(title).getAttribute('aria-label');
 
   it('gives the card one role axis, so every role-tabbed chart switches together', async () => {
     await openDiversity();
@@ -223,8 +225,9 @@ describe('Organisation diversity card (#435)', () => {
 
     expect(chartVariant('Role-holders by organisation')).toContain('Committers');
     expect(chartVariant('Single-employer repos by org')).toContain('Committers');
-    // The chart with no role axis is untouched by the card's tabs.
-    expect(chartVariant('Single-employer teams by org')).toContain('Single-employer teams by org');
+    // The chart with no role axis is untouched by the card's tabs, and its one
+    // view is named once rather than "<title> — <title>".
+    expect(chartVariant('Single-employer teams by org')).toBe('Single-employer teams by org');
   });
 
   // Out-of-range tabs clamp to the last one; anything else falls back to the first.
@@ -244,11 +247,9 @@ describe('Organisation diversity card (#435)', () => {
 
   it('leads an odd run of half-width charts with a two-row chart', async () => {
     await openDiversity();
-    const figure = (title: string) =>
-      screen.getByRole('figure', { name: new RegExp(`^${title} —`) });
     // Three half-width charts: the first spans two rows, the others stack beside it.
-    expect(figure('Role-holders by organisation')).toHaveClass('lg:row-span-2');
-    expect(figure('Single-employer teams by org')).not.toHaveClass('lg:row-span-2');
+    expect(figureNamed('Role-holders by organisation')).toHaveClass('lg:row-span-2');
+    expect(figureNamed('Single-employer teams by org')).not.toHaveClass('lg:row-span-2');
   });
 
   it('leaves a chart with its own variant set on its own tabs', async () => {
diff --git a/web/src/test/format.test.ts b/web/src/test/format.test.ts
index 040461305..2be467c13 100644
--- a/web/src/test/format.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/test/format.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /** Timestamps are labelled UTC wherever they appear, so they must be in UTC. */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import { dateStamp, stamp } from '../format';
+import { chartViewName, dateStamp, stamp } from '../format';
 
 describe('stamp', () => {
   it('keeps a UTC timestamp as-is', () => {
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ describe('dateStamp', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('chartViewName', () => {
+  it('names the variant after the title', () => {
+    expect(chartViewName('Contributors', 'By month')).toBe('Contributors — By month');
+  });
+
+  it('does not repeat a single-view chart’s title', () => {
+    // A chart with one view is labelled with its own title.
+    expect(chartViewName('Activity heatmap', 'Activity heatmap')).toBe('Activity heatmap');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('readFigure', () => {
   it('draws shares and parts of a whole as meters, and counts with separators', async () => {
     const { readFigure } = await import('../metricFigure');
diff --git a/web/src/test/printComponents.test.tsx b/web/src/test/printComponents.test.tsx
index bde1b0f62..5dda3a8db 100644
--- a/web/src/test/printComponents.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/test/printComponents.test.tsx
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ describe('Chart printing', () => {
       <InteractiveChart variant={variant} title="Contributors" provenance={MANIFEST.provenance} />,
     );
     expect(screen.getByRole('status')).toHaveAttribute('data-print-pending');
-    expect(screen.getByRole('status')).toHaveTextContent('Contributors (All)');
+    expect(screen.getByRole('status')).toHaveTextContent('Contributors — All');
 
     await act(async () => fail());
     const alert = await screen.findByRole('alert');
     expect(alert).toHaveAttribute('data-print-error');
-    expect(alert).toHaveTextContent('Could not load chart data: Contributors (All).');
+    expect(alert).toHaveTextContent('Could not load chart data: Contributors — All.');
     expect(document.querySelector('[data-print-pending]')).toBeNull();
     vi.unstubAllGlobals();
   });