Strategic Plans - Santa Maria Independent School District

Human Resource Specialist & Title IX Coordinator - Santa Maria Independent School District

Community - Santa Maria Independent School District

Business & Finance - Santa Maria Independent School District

Departments - Santa Maria Independent School District

Home - Santa Maria Independent School District

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Health Services - Santa Maria Independent School District

Administrator & Educator Forms - Santa Maria Independent School District

Dress Codes - Santa Maria Independent School District

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

March 2026

February 2026

Santa Maria ISD

Title / URL	Issues
Strategic Plans - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/our-district/strategic-plans	39
Human Resource Specialist & Title IX Coordinator - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/departments/hr	27
Community - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/community	17
Business & Finance - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/departments/business-finance	16
Departments - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/departments	16
Home - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/	16
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.smisd.net/	16
Health Services - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/departments/health-services	16
Administrator & Educator Forms - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/departments/hr/new-page	16
Dress Codes - Santa Maria Independent School Districtwww.smisd.net/community/dress-codes	15

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

Santa Maria ISD

Where this issue has occurred