Degrees and Certificates | Maricopa Community Colleges

Financial Aid Forms | Maricopa Community Colleges

Scholarships | Maricopa Community Colleges

Financial Aid | Maricopa Community Colleges

Student Life | Maricopa Community Colleges

Other Financial Aid Resources | Maricopa Community Colleges

Events | Maricopa Community Colleges

GateWay Community College | Maricopa Community Colleges

Students | Maricopa Community Colleges

Rio Salado College | Maricopa Community Colleges

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

January 2025

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Maricopa Community Colleges

Title / URL	Issues
Degrees and Certificates \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/degrees-certificates	100
Financial Aid Forms \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students/financial-aid/forms	30
Scholarships \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students/scholarships	26
Financial Aid \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students/financial-aid	21
Student Life \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students/student-life	18
Other Financial Aid Resources \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students/financial-aid-resources	16
Events \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/events-home	14
GateWay Community College \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/colleges/gateway-community-college	11
Students \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/students	11
Rio Salado College \| Maricopa Community Collegeswww.maricopa.edu/colleges/rio-salado-college	11

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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