Saint Mary's College of California | A Bay Area Liberal Arts College

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Financial Aid | Saint Mary's College

Scholarships | Saint Mary's College

Academics | Saint Mary's College

Admissions | Saint Mary's College

Honors Program | Saint Mary's College

Undergraduate Academics | Saint Mary's College

How to Apply | Saint Mary's College

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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Saint Mary's College California

Title / URL	Issues
Saint Mary's College of California \| A Bay Area Liberal Arts Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/	33
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.stmarys-ca.edu/	33
Giving to Saint Mary’s \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/give	30
Financial Aid \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/financial-aid	24
Scholarships \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/financial-aid/scholarships	23
Academics \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/academics	21
Admissions \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/admissions-aid	20
Honors Program \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/honors-program	17
Undergraduate Academics \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/undergraduate	15
How to Apply \| Saint Mary's Collegewww.stmarys-ca.edu/apply	15

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Saint Mary's College California

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