Graduate Programs | Roger Williams University

News Archive | Roger Williams University

Page Not Found | Roger Williams University

Roger Williams Alumni | Roger Williams University

RWU in the Community | Roger Williams University

Faculty & Staff Resources & Links | Roger Williams University

Academics | Roger Williams University

Graduate Admission | Roger Williams University

The RWU Internship Experience | Roger Williams University

Our History | Roger Williams 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
	Graduate Programs \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/graduate/graduate-programs	61
	News Archive \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/news/news-archive	59
	Page Not Found \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	31
	Roger Williams Alumni \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/alumni	30
	RWU in the Community \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/life-at-rwu/rwu-community	28
	Faculty & Staff Resources & Links \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/faculty-staff	28
	Academics \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/undergraduate/academics	27
	Graduate Admission \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/graduate/admission	27
	The RWU Internship Experience \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/internships	26
	Our History \| Roger Williams Universitywww.rwu.edu/who-we-are/our-history	25

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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