Current Students | University of Houston-Downtown

UHD Faculty and Staff

Student Success and Student Life | University of Houston-Downtown

Visitors| University of Houston-Downtown

UHD Academic Affairs

P.A.S.S. | University of Houston-Downtown

Careers at UHD | University of Houston-Downtown

About UHD | University of Houston-Downtown

Mission and Vision

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

August 2025

July 2025

University of Houston Downtown

	Title / URL	Issues
	Current Students \| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/current-students/	47
	UHD Faculty and Staffwww.uhd.edu/faculty-staff/	44
	Student Success and Student Life \| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/sssl/index.aspx	43
	Visitors\| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/visitors/	39
	UHD Academic Affairswww.uhd.edu/academics/index.aspx	36
	404www.uhd.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	31
	P.A.S.S. \| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/hr/pass.aspx	27
	Careers at UHD \| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/hr/careers/	27
	About UHD \| University of Houston-Downtownwww.uhd.edu/about/	26
	Mission and Visionwww.uhd.edu/about/mission.aspx	26

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

University of Houston Downtown

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