Penn State Campuses | Penn State Locations | Penn State

Academic Colleges | Penn State

How Aid Works | Student Aid | Penn State

Penn State Admissions | College Admissions | Penn State

Contact Penn State's Office of Student Aid | Penn State

Penn State Undergraduate Admissions | Penn State

Penn State Undergraduate Degrees | Bachelor Degrees | Majors | Penn State

Undergraduate Majors | Penn State

Explore Penn State | Penn State

Apply for Aid | Student Aid | Penn State

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
	Penn State Campuses \| Penn State Locations \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/academics/campuses	58
	Academic Colleges \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/academics/colleges	38
	How Aid Works \| Student Aid \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/costs-aid/how-aid-works	38
	Penn State Admissions \| College Admissions \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/admission	37
	Contact Penn State's Office of Student Aid \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/costs-aid/contact	37
	Penn State Undergraduate Admissions \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/admission/undergraduate	36
	Penn State Undergraduate Degrees \| Bachelor Degrees \| Majors \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/academics/undergraduate	36
	Undergraduate Majors \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/academics/undergraduate/majors	36
	Explore Penn State \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/admission/undergraduate/explore	35
	Apply for Aid \| Student Aid \| Penn Statewww.psu.edu/costs-aid/apply-for-aid	35

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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