Students | Brandeis University

Student Life | Brandeis University

Support at Brandeis | Brandeis University

Sites A-Z | Search | Search | Brandeis University

Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University | Rose Art Museum | Brandeis University

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Brandeis University

Academics | Brandeis University

Workday at Brandeis | Brandeis University

Summer Programs | Academics | Brandeis University

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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Students \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/audience/index.html	65
	Student Life \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/oncampus/index.html	54
	Support at Brandeis \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/support/index.html	48
	Sites A-Z \| Search \| Search \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/search/sitemap.html	24
	Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University \| Rose Art Museum \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/rose/	22
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.brandeis.edu/	19
	Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/	19
	Academics \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/learning/index.html	19
	Workday at Brandeis \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/workday/index.html	19
	Summer Programs \| Academics \| Brandeis Universitywww.brandeis.edu/learning/summer.html	19

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Brandeis University

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