Scholarships | Deakin

Find a course | Deakin

Home | Deakin

First time visit: View without clicking anything

404 | Deakin

How to apply | Deakin

Short courses | Deakin

Study | Deakin

Study online | Deakin

Support services | Deakin

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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Deakin University

	Title / URL	Issues
	Scholarships \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships	54
	Find a course \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study/find-a-course	45
	Home \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/	41
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.deakin.edu.au/	41
	404 \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/invented-url-for-404-page	40
	How to apply \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study/how-to-apply	40
	Short courses \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study/find-a-course/short-courses	40
	Study \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study	40
	Study online \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/study/study-online	40
	Support services \| Deakinwww.deakin.edu.au/student-life-and-services/support-services	39

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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