Contact Our Admissions Office | UCCS

Apply | UCCS

Admissions & Aid | UCCS

Students | UCCS

Terms of Use | UCCS

Degrees & Programs | UCCS

Request Information | UCCS

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Home | UCCS

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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University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Title / URL	Issues
Contact Our Admissions Office \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/admissions-aid/staff	53
Apply \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/apply	30
Admissions & Aid \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/admissions-aid	25
Students \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/students	20
Admissions & Aid \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/resources/parents-families	19
Terms of Use \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/terms-of-use	19
Degrees & Programs \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/academics	17
Request Information \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/request-info	17
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.uccs.edu/	15
Home \| UCCSwww.uccs.edu/	15

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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