Campus Life | NC State University

Copyright | NC State University

First time visit: View without clicking anything

NC State University

Resources | NC State University

The NC State Honors | NC State University

Online Education | NC State University

Research | NC State University

Procedure: Personal Use | NC State University

Liability | NC State 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.

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Campus Life \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/campus-life/	28
	Copyright \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/copyright/	22
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ncsu.edu/	20
	NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/	20
	Resources \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/resources/	19
	The NC State Honors \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/about/honors/	18
	Online Education \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/online-education/	15
	Research \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/research/	15
	Procedure: Personal Use \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/copyright/procedure/	15
	Liability \| NC State Universitywww.ncsu.edu/copyright/liability/	15

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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