First time visit: View without clicking anything

Rhode Island School of Design

RISD Global: Study Abroad, Research and Partnerships | RISD

Ways of giving | RISD

Visiting RISD Campus | RISD

Strategic Plan | RISD

RISD Graduate Admissions | RISD

RISD Transfer Admissions and Transfer Deadline | RISD

Giving and Fundraising Priorities | RISD

Academic Departments, Majors and Resources | RISD

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

June 2025

May 2025

Rhose Island School of Design

Title / URL	Issues
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.risd.edu/	21
Rhode Island School of Designwww.risd.edu/	21
RISD Global: Study Abroad, Research and Partnerships \| RISDwww.risd.edu/academics/risd-global	18
Ways of giving \| RISDwww.risd.edu/giving/ways-giving	16
Visiting RISD Campus \| RISDwww.risd.edu/about/visiting-campus	15
Strategic Plan \| RISDwww.risd.edu/about/strategic-plan	14
RISD Graduate Admissions \| RISDwww.risd.edu/admissions/graduate	14
RISD Transfer Admissions and Transfer Deadline \| RISDwww.risd.edu/admissions/transfer	14
Giving and Fundraising Priorities \| RISDwww.risd.edu/giving/priorities	14
Academic Departments, Majors and Resources \| RISDwww.risd.edu/academics	14

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Rhose Island School of Design

Where this issue has occurred