Application Requirements and Admissions Process | How to Apply to PCOM

PCOM Admissions | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Academics | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Social Wall | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

PCOM South Georgia | Moultrie, GA Location of PCOM

PCOM Research | Advancing Science Through Innovative Research

PCOM Locations: Philadelphia, PA, Suwanee, GA and Moultrie, GA

Course Catalog | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information and Resources | PCOM

PCOM Research News | Faculty and Student Research Projects

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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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

	Title / URL	Issues
	Application Requirements and Admissions Process \| How to Apply to PCOMwww.pcom.edu/admissions/apply/	31
	PCOM Admissions \| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicinewww.pcom.edu/admissions/	30
	Academics \| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicinewww.pcom.edu/academics/	30
	Social Wall \| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicinewww.pcom.edu/news/social/	22
	PCOM South Georgia \| Moultrie, GA Location of PCOMwww.pcom.edu/south-georgia/	21
	PCOM Research \| Advancing Science Through Innovative Researchwww.pcom.edu/research/	14
	PCOM Locations: Philadelphia, PA, Suwanee, GA and Moultrie, GAwww.pcom.edu/campuses/	9
	Course Catalog \| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicinewww.pcom.edu/academics/course-catalogs/	8
	Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information and Resources \| PCOMwww.pcom.edu/coronavirus/	7
	PCOM Research News \| Faculty and Student Research Projectswww.pcom.edu/research/news/	7

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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Where this issue has occurred