Student Support Services - Santa Monica College

Distance Education - Santa Monica College

Current Students - Santa Monica College

Class Schedules - Santa Monica College

Hours of Operation - Santa Monica College

Contact SMC - Santa Monica College

How to Apply - Santa Monica College

Spotlight on Faculty - Santa Monica College

Admissions & Records - Santa Monica College

Academics - Santa Monica 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

October 2025

September 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Student Support Services - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/student-support/	17
Distance Education - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/academics/online-learning/	15
Current Students - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/info-for/current-students/	14
Class Schedules - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/academics/classes/	13
Hours of Operation - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/about/contact/hours.php	12
Contact SMC - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/about/contact/	12
How to Apply - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/admission-aid/apply/	12
Spotlight on Faculty - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/about/spotlight-faculty/	11
Admissions & Records - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/admission-aid/	11
Academics - Santa Monica Collegewww.smc.edu/academics/	10

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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